Quotes about Agnostic

Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that. Votes: 5

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith. Votes: 4

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. Votes: 4

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist. Votes: 4

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. Votes: 4

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies? Votes: 4

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs. Votes: 4

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. Votes: 4

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic. Votes: 4

Don't be an agnostic. Be something. Votes: 3

An agnostic is a cowardly atheist. Votes: 3

I have always considered myself as an Agnostic... Votes: 3

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant Votes: 3

I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about. Votes: 3

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour. Votes: 3

I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic. Votes: 3

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'. Votes: 3

The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know. Votes: 3

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists. Votes: 3

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. Votes: 3

Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this. Votes: 3

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. Votes: 3

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus." Votes: 3

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence Votes: 3

The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience; you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other Votes: 3

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it. Votes: 3

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing. Votes: 3

"Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "being doubtful about the existence of God." Votes: 3

I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere. Votes: 3

Hatebreed is a fantastic band. They've been around for ten years and they're going really strong. But Hatebreed -- when you compare them to Agnostic Front, we're two completely different bands. There are a few similarities, but Hatebreed is a lot heavier. Votes: 3

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? Votes: 3

[as for evolution]....cutting out the sections [on the subject] is preferrable if the portions are not thick enough to cause damage to the spine of the book as it is opened and closed in normal use. When the sections needing correction are too thick, paste the pages together being careful not to smear portions of the book not intended for correction. Votes: 3

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. Votes: 3

The law is agnostic about truth. Votes: 1

Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls? Votes: 1

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic. Votes: 1

Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution. Votes: 1

I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community. Votes: 1

I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested. Votes: 1

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told. Votes: 1

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come. Votes: 1

I will never come around to the idea of an anthropomorphic God. I'm also uncomfortable with the word 'God'... I'm agnostic about the answer and I'm agnostic about the question. Votes: 1

What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic. Votes: 1

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy. Votes: 1

I see little difference in the attitudes of those who consider themselves Christian and those who are openly secular and agnostic. Most Christian citizenship appears to be clearly right here - on this little bit of very unreal estate. Votes: 1

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact. Votes: 1

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all. Votes: 1

I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life. Votes: 1

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence. Votes: 1

Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion. Votes: 1

I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. I just don't - I don't have the energy for that, and so I... Agnostic separates me from the conduct of atheists whether or not there is strong overlap between the two categories, and at the end of the day I'd rather not be any category at all. Votes: 1

I'm a teleological, existential agnostic. Votes: 0

My father was an agnostic. Votes: 0

Don't be agnostic - be something. Votes: 0

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic. Votes: 0

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family. Votes: 0

I have to recognize that I am agnostic. Votes: 0

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum. Votes: 0

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. Votes: 0

I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism Votes: 0

I am an agnostic as to the question of God. Votes: 0

I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks. Votes: 0

Im actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically. Votes: 0

Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives Votes: 0

If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist. Votes: 0

I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist. Votes: 0

I am 95% a theist and 5% an atheist; thus ultimately I am an agnostic. Votes: 0

An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind. Votes: 0

If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic. Votes: 0

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic. Votes: 0

I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together. Votes: 0

For all the creationists out there, Darwin's just an atheist. But he was actually agnostic. Votes: 0

Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me. Votes: 0

I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position. Votes: 0

The agnostic is gutless and prefers to keep one safe foot in the god camp. Votes: 0

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic? Votes: 0

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems. Votes: 0

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. Votes: 0

I think I'm a love agnostic - not sure, one way or another, if it really exists. Votes: 0

I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for. Votes: 0

Even if there is intelligent life somewhere, which perhaps there is, I'm agnostic about it, I don't know. Votes: 0

The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic. Votes: 0

You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass. Votes: 0

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it. Votes: 0

I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden Votes: 0

The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all. Votes: 0

As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic. Votes: 0

Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture. Votes: 0

The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul." Votes: 0

America has become politically and culturally agnostic, and the Christian faith in the minds of many has come to represent intolerance. Votes: 0

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me. Votes: 0

I am a person of faith. I'm certainly not an atheist or an agnostic and I see some divine force somewhere. Votes: 0

When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not agnostic. I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me. Votes: 0

An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths. Votes: 0

Science is agnostic when it comes to god; not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly; just agnostic. Votes: 0

W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained. Votes: 0

Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends. Votes: 0

It may be the case that [post-Holocaust] the authentic Jewish agnostic and the authentic Jewish believer are closer than at any previous time. Votes: 0

I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself. Votes: 0

You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility. Votes: 0

I was brought up Christian, then I was agnostic and then I realized I was atheist... This movie [Agora] is about fundamentalism and hate. Votes: 0

You never hear in the news, 'Two hundred killed today when atheist rebels took heavy shelling from the agnostic stronghold in the north.' Votes: 0

The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge. Votes: 0

A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious. Votes: 0

I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite. Votes: 0

There's no bigger atheist than me. Well, I take that back. I'm a cancer screening away from going agnostic and a biopsy away from full-fledged Christian. Votes: 0

There are certain occupations - probably, most prominently, politics - where there would be a bias against somebody who's agnostic or atheist in running for office. Votes: 0

It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life. Votes: 0

If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too. Votes: 0

I'm tolerant of believers, but I'm agnostic. I'm curious to see how scientists will integrate the near-death experience into their research and if it will be explained. Votes: 0

I grew up in a mixed religious household. And it was volatile. My dad's atheist, my mom's agnostic. Just constant fighting. There's no God! There might be! Votes: 0

I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists. Votes: 0

I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists and people that were agnostic. Votes: 0

I wanted to marry the first girl that I fell in love with, but there were religious differences. I was an agnostic and she was a Polycarbonate Votes: 0

I wanted to marry the first girl that I fell in love with, but there were religious differences. I was an agnostic and she was a Polycarbonate" Votes: 0

Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic. Votes: 0

To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn't decided what to believe. Votes: 0

When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian. Votes: 0

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth. Votes: 0

Yoga is so universal in its principles and so holistically beneficial, it is possible for any person, young or old, religious or agnostic, to embrace and enjoy a practice. Votes: 0

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith. Votes: 0

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence. Votes: 0

We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc. Votes: 0

Remember, I am neither a bear nor a bull, I am an agnostic opportunist. I want to make money short- and long-term. I want to find good situations and exploit them. Votes: 0

I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party. Votes: 0

I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner. Votes: 0

I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic. Votes: 0

I'm agnostic. By definition, I'm unsure of what to believe in, but I'm also borderline-capable of believing in anything and everything, or nothing at all... and I want to believe in something. Votes: 0

As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering hisfellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted. Votes: 0

I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subjects of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am. Votes: 0

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies Votes: 0

I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am still awake at night, asking how? I am more content with the question than I would be with an answer. Votes: 0

Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what kind of universe we're living in, and everybody's living according to a story. Votes: 0

According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God. Votes: 0

My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn’t believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I’m agnostic. Votes: 0

I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it. Votes: 0