Albert Einstein
Physicist
"God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists."
Agnostic quotes
Agnostic
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Charles Darwin
Naturalist, Geologist
"An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind."
Ben Nicholson
Artist
"I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems."
Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains."
Robert Frost
Poet
"Don't be an agnostic. Be something."
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"Don't be agnostic - be something."
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"It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity."
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"So telling a lie becomes a sin if you tell it to take advantage of a person, but if you tell a lie to do a good thing for him that is not a sin. Even God tells lies very often; you can see this throughout history."
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"My position concerning God is that of an agnostic."
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"I have always considered myself as an Agnostic."
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"No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour."
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"If I thought the Jews killed God, I'd worship the Jews."
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"I'm a teleological, existential agnostic."
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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
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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."
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"Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"
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"On religion in particular the time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have on mature consideration satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false but hurtful, to make their dissent known."
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"An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid."
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"I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about."
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"When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray."
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"You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility."
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"Let me use their own terminology against them. They aborted a child in the 200th trimester."
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"If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist."
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"I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic."
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"The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out."
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