Agnosticism Quotes
Quotes on doubt and belief
These agnosticism quotes trace the term back to T. H. Huxley's idea that it means honestly not knowing whether a God exists, a stance some came to Believe was reasonable.
I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another.
You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God...
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America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read,...
Averse Quotes
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.
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a...
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Others are more skeptical of the label, calling it fence-sitting, while a broader quote frames America's freedom of and from religion as room for every tradition and doubt alike.
