Agnostic Quotes - Page 17

• I love the idea of God, but it's not stylistically in keeping with the way I function. I would describe myself as an enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God. I can see that people who believe in God are happier. ... But I doubt.

  Carrie Fisher

  God, Religious, Believe

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• I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

  Laura Z. Hobson

  Grew Up, Broads, Grew

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• My challenge is to make sure the things I say and the things I do remain consistent for as often and as long as possible. My why is to inspire people to do the things that inspire them so that together we can change our world. That's why I wake up every single day. I'm agnostic to the form it takes: I teach, I write, I speak, I advise.

  Simon Sinek

  Writing, Our World, Together We Can

  Source: www.meetadvisors.com

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

  Moby

  Christian, Labels, Mechanic

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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• I was raised Jewish by atheistic-agnostic parents. During this journey, I had people from all walks and all faiths try to help. A Jewish priest who I was friends with wanted to lay hands on me - I didn't ask questions about how - I just said when and where and how often do you want to do it? I didn't argue.

  Mark Nepo

  Journey, Hands, People

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• Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what kind of universe we're living in, and everybody's living according to a story.

  Rob Bell

  Atheist, Years, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Philip Pullman

  Light, Darkness, Mind

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• The fundamentalist believer is mostly a weird intellectual who often lacks real faith altogether. As a self-appointed attorney for God, who is in no need of attorneys, he very easily turns out to be more godless than the agnostic and the unbeliever. At all events, he seems deaf to poetry.

  Steve Allen

  Real, Self, Intellectual

  Steve Allen (1993). “More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality”

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• I definitely have a spiritual outlook. I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer, 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved. I'm not a religious guy, in fact I'm probably agnostic but I thought what this writer had to say was really powerful.

  Chris Pine

  Spiritual, Religious, Powerful

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good." This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Atheist, Real, Believe

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• 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.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Believe, Want

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• I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about as a Catholic child, as an 18-year-old novice in a religious community, as an agnostic graduate student, as - but who cares about my disguises? Or God's.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Religious, Children, Years

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• I have resigned from the professional undertaking of coin flipping. I am not here to tell you where gold's going to be. I have no idea. That's my existentialism. I am a student of uncertainty, I have no idea where the stock market is going to be. So when I am creating trades in my portfolio for my clients, I am agnostic. I just want to enhance the probability that I make money come what may.

  Hugh Hendry

  Ideas, Creating, Gold

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• Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied 'agnostic.' He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.

  Bertrand Russell

  God, Punishment, Religion

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.257, Psychology Press

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• In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God ... I think that generally (& more and more so as I grow older) but not always, that an agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind.

  Charles Darwin

  Atheist, Thinking, Mind

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.11757, Delphi Classics

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• Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Home, Thinking

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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

  Kedar Joshi

  Atheist, Theist

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• 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.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Pluto, Levels

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• 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.

  Tony Horwitz

  Maps, Matter, Believer

  Tony Horwitz (2010). “One for the Road: Revised Edition”, p.55, Vintage

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• In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, May, Matter

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.272, University of Georgia Press

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• At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Atheist, Philosophical

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.47, Penguin

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• I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.

  Grace Slick

  Thinking, Knows

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• I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.

  Woody Allen

  Girl, Witty, Religious

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• Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together.

  Glenn Beck

  Running, Spiritual, Atheist

  "Glenn Beck: Don't follow herd on the economy" by Glenn Beck, edition.cnn.com. February 28, 2008.

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• Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms

  Joseph McCabe

  Dark, Drawing, Age

  Joseph McCabe (1929). “The Story of Religious Controversy”

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