Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

And the cause of everything is that which we call God.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

From my early 20s on, I would waver between atheism and agnosticism, never coming close to considering that God could be real.

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

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

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.

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.

I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

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, it started to stick.

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 or not, but that nobody could know.

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.

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 was raised in a deeply Catholic family. There was a sense that everything we were doing was to prepare ourselves for an afterlife in heaven. In my teenage years, that became less important to me. Eventually, that turned into agnosticism, which became atheism.

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