Top 40 Agnostic Quotes

There’s no reason to be agnostic about ideas that are dramatically incompatible with everything we know about modern science.

I’m not religious. I’m not an atheist. Would I say I’m an agnostic? Possibly. But I would say the collective unconscious is something I’m much more interested in.

I’m platform agnostic. I’ve been platform agnostic ever since I went online.

I consider myself a religious person, but when it comes to God and faith, I don’t know. I guess that means I’m agnostic.

I have been described by one of my colleagues as a ‘militant agnostic’ with my tagline, ‘I don’t know, and neither do you!’ I take this hard-line, fence-sitting position because it is the only position consistent with both my scientific ethos and my conscience.

A 300pp novel can easily become a 200pp novel by printing with smaller type; a 100pp screenplay can potentially become a film of between 60-140 minutes in length; a 200pp stage play could be performed in anything from 30 minutes to four hours. For all these media, the script length is agnostic to the final work.

Regardless of your belief, regardless of your religious affiliation, I don’t care if you’re an atheist, an agnostic, I don’t care. We could all use good news.

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.

I’m agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn’t. So there’s me, sitting in the chairs, thinking, ‘Jeez, why am I here? I’d rather be playing tennis, seriously.’

I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.

In America, now, let us – Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever – fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one’s enemies. A tall order, that – perhaps the tallest of all.

I’m tolerant of believers, but I’m agnostic. I’m curious to see how scientists will integrate the near-death experience into their research and if it will be explained.

I err on the side of a kind of optimistic agnostic sense that there’s something that put us all here – some energy or something that we are not in a position to understand.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

I suppose I’m a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

I’m sort of agnostic. I grew up Catholic and switched to Episcopalian in college because I sang in churches to have money to buy pizza and french fries.

I am an agnostic, even though I respect and am interested in all religions. If there’s something I believe in, it’s a mysterious energy; the one that fills the oceans during tides, the one that unites nature and beings.

I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it’s really a cushion; it’s cool, I’m cool with it.

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.

I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.

My father was an agnostic.

Professionally and personally, I try to be as agnostic as possible, try to see things as objectively as possible.

In Japan, the people preserve their temples for their exquisite beauty, and there are a great many sincere Buddhists; but China is irreligious: a nation of atheists or agnostics, or slaves of impious superstitions. In an extended tramp among temples, I have not seen a single male worshiper or a thing to please the eye.

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.

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.

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn’t be doing with it.

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

The law is agnostic about truth. It’s very skeptical of ultimate truth. That’s why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

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.

I see little difference in the attitudes of those who consider themselves Christian and those who are openly secular and agnostic. Most Christian citizenship appears to be clearly right here – on this little bit of very unreal estate.

The Internet has helped atheists and agnostics coalesce as never before.

I don’t believe in prayer, I’m a pretty hardcore agnostic.

Religion features more now in my life than it did when I was a kid – my dad rejected the Catholic church as a young man. I had no religious upbringing, but certainly, Dad was a kind of secular humanist. I don’t know if he was an atheist or agnostic. I regret I didn’t talk to him about it.

Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.

The pluralist society must be pragmatic. It does not say that ‘God is dead.’ It does not say that ‘God is alive.’ It says if we are to answer the question of how we can live together then we must remain agnostic on all such matters – at least so far as our civic association is structured.

We are fundamentally politically agnostic and an apolitical organization.

I am not the opposite of theism. I am right in the middle of those non-believers and believers. It’s not even about being agnostic or nastik. Why would I take a name given to me by my opposition? I am just a rationalist.

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.