Richard Dawkins Quotes

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

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 am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

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

I don't need faith.

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

Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.

Who couldn't believe there's a God?

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.

People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, “Well, are you a Republican or an American?” The two words serve different concepts and are not mutually exclusive. Agnosticism addresses knowledge; atheism addresses belief. The agnostic says, “I don't have a knowledge that God exists.” The atheist says, “I don't have a belief that God exists.” You can say both things at the same time. Some agnostics are atheistic and some are theistic.

I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

Atheism is the last word of theism.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

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

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Believing that there is no God does not mean that there isn't one.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.