Agnostic Quotes

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.

One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.

I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

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.

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

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.

"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."

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

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

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

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

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

I had read some books on the Baha'i Faith. I had read - I was looking into Buddhism and trying to understand sort of the agnostic approach, so there was just a bunch of stuff I was just looking at.

Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

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.

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

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

Even if you're an agnostic or an atheist, you can create an altar, because an altar is simply paying homage to someone's life and celebrating what they did.

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.

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.

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.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.")

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciproc

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men

Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . “is a pious lie

Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in

Give me something to worship whatever.” Cries the human soul

Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity.

Science cannot disprove god. Science studies the things that are. The eternal question is who or what made them to be

Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of this life?

There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom

Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah. Maybe your own if not the world's

Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors.

The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live

Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world

God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him on that level they are all equal

Much terror in religion is not the will of god, it is created by power hungry clerics who thirst for absolute power and claim it for god. God does not seek power, he is already powerful.

No one knows what god thinks of anything. He only knows and no one can claim to penetrate into his mysteries. Those who do that are liars and must be avoided at all costs

It's utter arrogance to think that we can know what god ought to be or do. If we don't understand we must continue our search or recognize our ignorance

All religions are "revealed" and "inspired". After all nothing happens without the "will" of god.

An atheist is a disappointed true believer he is an angry and hungry soul who has failed to find a real god to whom he can anchor his hope

All religions are man-made God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.

When you have doubts about God, the right position to take is agnosticism, atheism is outright arrogance

The more time you invest into studying religion, the more likely you are to disbelieve in the gods

Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death those who prove or disprove it never come back to us to tell the story

All religions are guesswork

My gut instinct is that these heavens and hells exist nowhere else except in our hearts and minds