Francis Thompson Quotes

An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.

I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.

In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.

I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.

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'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large china teapot in orbit in the solar system.

I don't have enough faith to be an Atheist.

...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.

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

I don't like quintessential certitude.

I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.

You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”.

It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties.

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist, or an idealist; a Christian, or a freethinker; I found that the more I learned and reflected, the less ready was the answer; until, at last, I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations, except the last.

I wouldn't call myself an atheist. I neither deny nor accept that there is a God... So I do not laugh at people who believe in God. But I do not necessarily believe in God - nor deny that there could be one.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

I have reservations about everything I do.

I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.