Agnostic Quotes - Page 4

• The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Teacher, Atheist, Children

  John Thomas Scopes, William Jennings Bryan, Tennessee. County Court (Rhea Co.) (1971). “The world's most famous court trial: State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes; complete stenographic report of the court test of the Tennessee anti-evolution act at Dayton, July 10 to 21, 1925, including speeches and arguments of attorneys”, Da Capo Pr

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• It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Religious, Atheist

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

  Douglas Adams

  Beauty, Beautiful, Religious

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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• He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

  George Orwell

  God, Atheist, Atheism

  Down and Out in Paris and London ch. 30 (1933)

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

  Studs Terkel

  Atheist, Talking, Atheism

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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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.

  Alfre Woodard

  Trying, Figures, My Thoughts

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

  Janet Suzman

  Mother, Feet, Synagogue

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• I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

  Thomas Huxley

  Titles, Appropriate

  'Collected Essays' (1893-94) 'Agnosticism'

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• I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.

  Thomas S. Monson

  House, Doubt

  "The Lighthouse of the Lord" by Thomas S. Monson, www.lds.org. February 2001.

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• I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.

  Ben Nicholson

  Believe, Pluralism, Proximity

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• Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Faith, Atheist, Thinking

  Richard Dawkins' Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival (April 15, 1992); quoted in "EDITORIAL: A scientist's case against God", "The Independent"(London), (p. 17), April 20, 1992.

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• To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

  Woody Allen

  Loyalty, Atheist, Religion

  "Fictional character: Sandy Bates". "Stardust Memories", www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• How do I define God? I don't.... People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as they like. Personally, I don't.

  Noam Chomsky

  Spiritual, Atheist, Science

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• If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

  Albert Einstein

  Im Sorry, Atheist, Fear

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• I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else.

  Simon Hoggart

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Ever heard of an agnostic suicide bomber?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2012.

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• No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Literature, Humour

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.201, Delphi Classics

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• Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Death, God

  "Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Maxims and Arrows, 7, 1888.

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• I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Atheist, Ignorance, Humility

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.

  W. C. Fields

  Bible, Book, Reading

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• Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?

  David Foster Wallace

  Pain, Infinite Jest, Crosses

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• 'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.

  Johann Most

  Book, Want, Narrative

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• Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

  Sigmund Freud

  Strength, Death, Spiritual

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Christian, Atheist, Atheism

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

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• I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

  "Jesus : Myth Or Reality?". Book by Ian Curtis, 2006.

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• The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Fashion, Catholic, Mind

  "Reginald". Book by Hector Hugh Munro, 1904.

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