Agnostic Quotes - Page 9

• The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, Christian, Religious

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• It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.43, Princeton University Press

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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.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, There Is No God, Knows

  "A Tribute to Carl Sagan: The Sagan File" by Joel Achenbach, The Skeptic Magazine, Vol 13, No. 1, www.skeptic.com. 2006.

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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

  Convince, Impart, Sermons

  Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.143, Courier Dover Publications

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• No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.

  George H. W. Bush

  Atheist, Hatred, Scary

  Campaign press conference at O'Hare Airport, Chicago, August 27, 1987.

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• I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.330, Princeton University Press

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• This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

  John Adams

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

  John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”

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• Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.14, St. Martin's Press

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• He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

  Carl Sagan

  Believe, Thinking, Atheism

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• Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

  Ann Druyan

  Fear, Believe, Atheism

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• Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

  Ann Druyan

  Believe, Atheism, Want

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• God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Atheism, Harmony

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 25 Apr. 1929

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• Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.

  Carl Sagan

  Grateful, Opportunity, Everyday

  "In the Valley of the Shadow". Parade, March 10, 1996.

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• "I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing."
  "Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D."
  "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Men, Giving

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Book by Douglas Adams, Chapter 6, 1979.

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• How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

  Woody Allen

  Funny, God, Witty

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• [Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Atheist, Religion

  "The Atheism Tapes", 2004.

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• Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Atheist, Men

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.142, Penguin

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• Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Atheist, Imagination

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.

  Stephen Hawking

  Atheist, Order, Law

  "Leaping the Abyss". Interview with Gregory Benford, reason.com. April 2002.

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• If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle.

  Dave Barry

  Atheist, Humanity, Religion

  Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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• The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Character, Atheism

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• They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Atheist, Thinking

  "Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief" (BBC Four), 2005.

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• I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Death, Sarcastic

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• Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

  H. L. Mencken

  God, Being Happy, Cynical

  A Mencken Chrestomathy ch. 30 (1949)

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• Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives

  Dennis Prager

  Atheist, Religious Life

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