Agnostic Quotes - page 4

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family. (Laura Z. Hobson)
I'm an agnostic in the truest sense of the word. I think about these things - I grew up Roman Catholic, I've been interested in Hinduism, in Eastern religions, but I'm not dedicated to anything - I go through periods where I think maybe it's all nonsense; maybe it's 'The Matrix...' I'm open to various ideas. View quote
Ronald D. Moore
I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community. View quote
Moby
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. View quote
Italo Calvino
To err is human, whether we are religious, atheist, or agnostic. View quote
Newton Lee
I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic. View quote
George R. R. Martin
The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told. View quote
Alan Dershowitz
The law is agnostic about truth. View quote
Alan Dershowitz
You have no business to be an unbeliever. You ought to stand for all the things these stupid people call superstitions. Come now, don't you think there's a lot in those old wives' tales about luck and charms and so on, silver bullets included? What do you say about them as a Catholic?' 'I say I'm an agnostic,' replied Father Brown, smiling. 'Nonsense,' said Aylmer impatiently. 'It's your business to believe things. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
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. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The extent of the region of the uncertain, the number of the problems the investigation of which ends in a verdict of not proven, will vary according to the knowledge and the intellectual habits of the individual agnostic. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
I'm caught between the words 'atheistic' and 'agnostic'. View quote
Philip Pullman
This is the Sanatan Dharma, this is the eternal religion which you did not really know before, but which I have now revealed to you. The agnostic and the sceptic in you have been answered, for I have given you proofs within and without you, physical and subjective, which have satisfied you. When you go forth, speak to your nation always this word, that it is for the Sanatan Dharma that they arise, it is for the world and not for themselves that they arise. I am giving them freedom for the service of the world. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
If there is a hereafter, the Democrats will burn because they were the Doers that killed the republic, the Republicans because they were the Talkers who abetted its murder. And such will be a well deserved fate for both. It is enough to make an agnostic hope there is a God. View quote
Michael Scheuer
I'm actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically. View quote
Edward Witten
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. View quote
B. F. Skinner
I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested. View quote
Grace Slick
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. View quote
Pope Benedict XVI
There were moments, usually on a sunny Easter morning, when she wished that she could with sincerity call herself a Christian; but for the rest of the year she knew herself to be what she was - incurably agnostic but prone to unpredictable relapses into faith. View quote
P. D. James
Much more recently I reclassified myself as an agnostic. Atheism, it turns out, is not quite rational either. The sketchiest acquaintance with cosmology will tell you that the universe is not, or is not yet, decipherable by human beings. It will also tell you that the universe is far more bizarre, prodigious and chillingly grand than any doctrine, and that spiritual needs can be met by its contemplation. Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands. View quote
Martin Amis
There's no reason to be agnostic about ideas that are dramatically incompatible with everything we know about modern science. (Sean M. Carroll)
My father was an agnostic. View quote
Jerry Falwell
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. View quote
Terry Eagleton
As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic. View quote
Michelle Bachelet
I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith. View quote
Thomas S. Monson