Best Agnostic Quotes

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

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

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

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

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

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

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

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.

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.

It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.

Man created God in his own image.

For years [H.P] Lovecraft was defined as an atheist. Well, he wasn’t saying anything about what he really was at all. He wasn’t even an agnostic. That’s exactly what the situation is, in other words, when you enter an eternal realm. You’ve got to know there is no religion.

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

You know, on the spectrum of religious belief, there is atheism – these are people that don’t believe. There’s theism – these are the believers and agnostics say it’s beyond comprehension that the whole issue of God us unknowable. You might be interested to know that perhaps the greatest mind of the 20th century Einstein, the one time that he actually used one of these appellations was in a letter about five years before he died and he referred to himself as an agnostic.

I’m still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I’m now a reverant agnostic. Which isn’t an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there’s a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It’s possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn’t take away from its power or importance.

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

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.

I suspect the reason is that most people […] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn’t quite big enough to explain everything about life. All I can say as a biologist is that the feeling disappears progressively the more you read about and study what is known about life and evolution. I want to add one thing more. The more you understand the significance of evolution, the more you are pushed away from the agnostic position and towards atheism. Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

As my colleague, the physical chemist Peter Atkins, puts it, we must be equally agnostic about the theory that there is a teapot in orbrit around the planet Pluto. We can’t disprove it. But that doesn’t mean the theory that there is a teapot is on level terms with the theory that there isn’t.

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

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

The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn’t stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is infinite. If you want to believe in a particular one of them – teapots, unicorns, or tooth fairies, Thor or Yahweh – the onus is on you to say why you believe in it. The onus is not on the rest of us to say why we do not. We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don’t have to bother saying so.

Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the teapot, but that doesn’t mean you treat the likelihood of its existence as being on all fours with its non-existence.

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.

I don’t see any sign of God in this world, in the place where we live and things we know. It can all be explained to my mind perfectly satisfactorily without God. But in the great darkness beyond this little spark of light where I live, of course there may be all kinds of things. There may be a god. So I’m really an agnostic.

Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.

The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

I’m now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I’m eternally grateful for.

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

I’m a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.

Now I’m a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me.

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.

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