Agnosticism Quotes - Page 2

• A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religious, Men, Hatred

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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.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

  Speech at Scopes trial, Dayton, Tenn., 15 July 1925

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• A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

  H. L. Mencken

  Faith, Atheist, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.11, Vintage

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• A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Attitude

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Arriving, Needs, Firsts

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• But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created that a cat should play with mice.

  Charles Darwin

  Cat, Play, Design

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  People, Goal, Trying

  "Robert Anton Wilson : Searching For Cosmic Intelligence". Interview with Jeffrey Elliot, 1980.

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• I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. The idea of a universal and beneficent Creator does not seem to arise in the mind of man, until he has been elevated by long-continued culture.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Ideas, Long

  Charles Darwin (1871). “The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.395

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• I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

  Brad Pitt

  Atheism

  "The Many Revolutions of Brad Pitt" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 25, 2012.

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• If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  God, Atheist, Christian Inspirational

  "Where All Roads Lead" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1922.

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• Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

  Voltaire

  Groups, Tomorrow, Born

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• I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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• Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

  Epicurus

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Omnipotence

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• Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

  Stephen Colbert

  Atheist, Atheism, Balls

  "The Colbert Report". www.imdb.com. 2005 - 2015.

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• I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religious, Believe, Religion

  "What I Believe" in The Forum 84 (p. 139), September 1930.

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• I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Thinking, Religion

  "What I Believe". "The Forum", 84, (p. 139), September 1930.

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• I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

  Isaac

  Atheist, Atheism, Want

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• Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

  Epicurus

  Atheist, Omnipotence, If There Is A God

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• I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Ideas, Religion

  Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr. (28 September 1949), from article by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1997.

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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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• The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Death, Religious, Atheist

  "The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night". Book by John Payne, Terminal Essay: Social Conditions, fn. 13., 1885.

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• No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

  Annie Besant

  Religious, Atheist, Philosophy

  "Why God". Book by William J. Pardue, May 10, 2012.

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• I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.

  Charles Darwin

  Cat, Play, Should

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• The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Atheist

  "Letters from the Earth" (1940)

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