You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
quote by Studs Terkel
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Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?
quote by Stephen Colbert
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My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn’t believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I’m agnostic.
quote by Carl Sagan
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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
Bertrand Russell in Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?, 1947
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
Bertrand Russell in Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic? (1947)
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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.
Bertrand Russell in Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic? (1947)
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
quote by E.M. Forster
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My father was an agnostic.
quote by Jerry Falwell
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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
quote by Clarence Darrow
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After Gaetan Picon
All seeing is joy
when it is simply seeing.
It is from the mind
that the trouble comes.
When it is simply seeing
the eye is lucid, whole;
the trouble comes
when the mind divides.
The eye is lucid, whole,
illiterate, agnostic;
where the mind divides,
the worm of blindness enters.
Illiterate, agnostic,
the stunned eye falters;
enter the worm, blindness,
the serpent, text.
The stunned eye falters.
It is from the mind,
this serpentine text.
Only seeing is joy.
poem by Eric Torgersen
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My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them." I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits — the relevant fruits — are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice. And whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.
quote by Reinhold Niebuhr
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I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
quote by Thomas Huxley
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My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.
quote by Janet Suzman
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Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.
quote by Alfre Woodard
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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
quote by Charles Darwin
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I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.
quote by Thomas S. Monson
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I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.
quote by Penelope Lively
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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.
quote by Clarence Darrow
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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 agnosticism means.
Clarence Darrow in Scopes Trial (1925)
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Pragmatic
When young I was an Atheist,
Yea, pompous as a pigeon
No opportunity I missed
To satirize religion.
I sneered at Scripture, scoffed at Faith,
I blasphemed at believers:
Said I: "There's nothing after Death,--
Your priests are just deceivers."
In middle age I was not so
Contemptuous and caustic.
Thought I: "There's much I do not know:
I'd better be agnostic.
The hope of immortality
'Tis foolish to be flouting."
So in the end I came to be
A doubter of my doubting.
Now I am old, with steps inclined
To hesitate and falter;
I find I get such peace of mind
Just sitting by an altar.
So Friends, don't scorn the family pew,
The preachments of the kirks:
Religion may be false or true,
But by the Lord!--it works.
poem by Robert William Service
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