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My religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and pandeism.
— Alfred Tennyson
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
We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.
— Sam Harris
We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.
— Nicolas Roeg
I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subject of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.
— Tony Horwitz
It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!
— Thomas A. Edison
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.
— Sam Harris
A belief is not true because it is useful
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.
— Criss Jami
No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has
become his interest that there should be none to call him to account. — Matthew Henry
become his interest that there should be none to call him to account. — Matthew Henry
I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.
— Brad Pitt
He had remained steadfast in agnosticism and therefore, as Mabel took comfort in remarking, 'he never denied God.' Neither did he affirm God.
— Robert V. Bruce
In our day many people are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, and emptiness have gripped much of our world.
— Billy Graham
I have always considered myself as an Agnostic ...
— Alexander Graham Bell
Science is agnostic when it comes to God - not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly - just agnostic.
— Eric Chaisson
[T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]
— Ludwig Feuerbach
Cop-out excuses and catch-phrase dismissals can only work so long before the holes in the religious argument cannot be ignored any longer.
— Steve Dustcircle
One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity!
— Eli Of Kittim
I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.
— Adib Khan
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
We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
— Thomas Aquinas
Please do not tell me that you speak to God on my behalf. If a god exists, I am a good enough man to deserve the message myself.
— Dan Pearce
In response to a letter regarding the writer's lack of religious belief:
The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty. — Abigail Van Buren
The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty. — Abigail Van Buren
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
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
I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.
— Andy Rooney
All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
To say that atheism is not a religion is the equivalent of saying anarchy is not really a political creed
— Bo Jinn
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
Every agnostic has a minister, Mike. Otherwise, they's be atheists.
— Jared C. Wilson
I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic.
— Stephanie Perkins
The more I learn, the less I know.
— Jeffrey Rasley
If the gods exist, then it does not matter whether or not this is something that one knows.
— Alex Stein
Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.
— Francis Thompson
Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?
— Brandon Sanderson
And the cause of everything is that which we call God.
— Leo Tolstoy
Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice.
— Raheel Farooq
I was brought up Christian, then I was agnostic and then I realized I was atheist ... This movie [Agora] is about fundamentalism and hate.
— Alejandro Amenabar
If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.
— Mark Twain
The Agnostic is one who asserts 'what no one denies' that there are limits to the sphere of human intelligence.
— Leslie Stephen
The Bible has noble poetry in it ... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
— Mark Twain
Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?
— William Jennings Bryan
Belief in God meant belief in the old tribal idol called Jehovah; and I would not pretend I did not know whether it existed or not.
— George Bernard Shaw
You don't have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is "I don't know".
— Penn Jillette
Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.
— Cesar Nascimento
Interviewer: Didn't Sagan want to believe?
Druyan: he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know. — Ann Druyan
Druyan: he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know. — Ann Druyan
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong
— James Branch Cabell
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
The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?
— Eli Of Kittim
Blessed be the merciless, for they shall see God's enormous shrug.
— George Garrett
Life loves to reveal herself to the raw, courageous doubters; to those who are willing to live inside the question.
— Jacob Nordby
I am, perhaps, too intellectual, too modern, for my own comfort! How lovely it would be to sink into the warm comfort of established religion.
— Lisa Tuttle
I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist.
— Criss Jami
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
— Henry Ward Beecher