Agnostic Quotes

[I] know more agnostics than atheists; the first is more undecided, the second, more convinced.

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I say that I am an agnostic.  People think that's pusillanimous and covering your bets. But it's not based on any belief or yearning for an afterlife but on the fact that we actually know so little about the cosmos. It is a tribute to the complexity and, at our present stage of development, the unknowability of the universe.

Agnostics: atheists without balls.

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.

One should not have the arrogance to declare that God does not exist.

Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith.

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. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

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

Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

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