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Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too. -- Anna Julia Cooper
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe. -- Thomas Huxley
Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle which is as much ethical as intellectual. -- Thomas Huxley
I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism. -- Brad Pitt
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. -- Orson Welles
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. -- Clarence Darrow
Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps. -- Francis Thompson
If there were no God, there would be no atheists. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. -- Oscar Wilde
Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things? -- William Jennings Bryan
Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know. -- Alexander Pope
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. -- Thomas Aquinas
We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief. -- D. Elton Trueblood
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. -- Charles Darwin
My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything. -- Robert Anton Wilson
A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious. -- H. L. Mencken
Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about ultimate reality. -- Cornelius Van Til
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. -- Thomas Jefferson
Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake. -- H. L. Mencken
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies? -- Richard Dawkins
As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity. -- Francis Collins
Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope. -- Stephen Batchelor
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window. -- Stephen King
I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. The idea of a universal and beneficent Creator does not seem to arise in the mind of man, until he has been elevated by long-continued culture. -- Charles Darwin
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man. -- Albert Einstein
We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism. -- Nicolas Roeg
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. -- Clarence Darrow
My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything. -- Robert Anton Wilson
I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another. -- S. T. Joshi
America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others. -- Parker Palmer
I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick. -- Julia Sweeney
You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know. -- S. T. Joshi
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. -- B. F. Skinner
All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Skepticism is my nature, freethought is my methodology, agnosticism is my conclusion after 25 years of being in the ministry, and atheism is my opinion. -- Jerry DeWitt
That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion. -- William Jennings Bryan
The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances. -- George H. Smith
The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismist, which is fine proof that there is a devil but hardly evidence that there is a God. -- Ben Lindsey
...organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism, agnosticism, hedonism, and secularism we now see in almost all formerly Christian countries. -- Richard Rohr

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