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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.

— Margaret Atwood

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Clarence Darrow

I have to recognize that I am agnostic.

— Antonio Banderas

If all you have is faith, then you never actually know anything.

— Todd Rundgren

In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.

— H. P. Lovecraft

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

— Daniel Barenboim

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.

— S. T. Joshi

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

— Ambrose Bierce

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

— Ridley Scott

✗Opposing Perspectives

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

— Confucius

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

— Stanley Fish