Clarence Darrow Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

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

Atheism is the last word of theism.

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.

I have to recognize that I am agnostic.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

My father was an agnostic.

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.

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

I don't need faith.

In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

I pray in my own way, not regularly, and I wouldn't say structured prayers. What I'm praying to I'm not sure. I'd be a firm agnostic.

I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.

I don't believe in prayer, I'm a pretty hardcore agnostic.

'Belief' means something that you do not know. You want to assume and bring a certainty to something that you do not know. That means you are concretising your ignorance. There is no need to believe anything.

I consider myself a religious person, but when it comes to God and faith, I don't know. I guess that means I'm agnostic.