Agnostic Quotes - Page 11

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

  Richard P. Feynman

  Trying, Sound, Would Be

  "Genius Talk: Conversations With Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries". Book by Denis Brian, August 1, 1995.

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• Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Spiritual, Religious, Atheist

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• What you are about to hear is God's word to the men of this nation. We are going to war as of tonight. We have divine power - that is our weapon. We will not compromise. Wherever truth is at risk, in the schools or legislature, we are going to contend for it. We will win.

  Bill McCartney

  War, School, Winning

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• In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce.

  Peter Guber

  Winning, People, Secret

  "Storytelling to help your career" by Rachel Farrell, www.cnn.com. June 29, 2011.

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• Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Character, United States

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• God is the absolute truth...

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Spiritual, Atheist, Science

  "Lectures on Philosophy of Religion, Volume 1". Book by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1827.

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• In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

  Richard Posner

  Spiritual, Atheist, Science

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• I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.

  Alexander Graham Bell

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• Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

  George Bernard Shaw

  God, Jesus, Power

  George Bernard Shaw (1978). “Androcles and the lion: an old fable renovated : definitive text”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• 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.

  Jack Kornfield

  Believe, Knowing, Appreciate

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• 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.

  Mike Dirnt

  Party, Optimistic, Thinking

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• I'm not a global warming believer. I'm not a global warming denier. I'm a global warming agnostic who believes instinctively that it can't be very good to pump lots of CO2 into the atmosphere but is equally convinced that those who presume to know exactly where that leads are talking through their hats.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Talking, Atmosphere

  "Carbon Chastity: The First Commandment of the Church of the Environment" by Charles Krauthammer, jewishworldreview.com. May 30, 2008.

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• One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution... But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Judging, Catholic, Minorities

  West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (dissenting opinion) (1943)

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• Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Latin, Greek, Ignorant

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

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Vision, Complexity, Clear

  "Ecodynamics: A New Theory Of Societal Evolution". Book by Kenneth E. Boulding, 1978.

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• A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Men, People, Police

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• I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Religious, Memories, Flower

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• The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in particular the control of education by religious authority. The attempts to ban the teaching of evolution or other scientific theories -- a feeble echo of medieval church tyranny and hostility to learning, but an echo nonetheless are serious threats to freedom of inquiry and should be vigorously combated.

  S. T. Joshi

  Religious, Atheist, Teaching

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• The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.

  Whitley Strieber

  Christmas, Mother, Brother

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• What's curious about the left's current obsession with Timothy McVeigh is that it proves that - despite a frantic search for 15 years - liberals have come across no better evidence of burgeoning "right-wing extremist" violence than a drug-taking, self-described "agnostic" who was thrown out of the Michigan Militia and who proclaimed, "Science is my religion." That sounds more like Bill Maher than Rush Limbaugh.

  Ann Coulter

  Self, Years, Wings

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Cynical, Incredibles, Appeals

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• A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Self, Rome

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• 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.

  Steve Wozniak

  Atheist, Thinking, Differences

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

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Roots, People

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• 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.

  Roger Ebert

  Atheist, Night, Would Be

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