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Agnostic   /ægnˈɑstɪk/   Listen
Agnostic

adjective
1.
Of or pertaining to an agnostic or agnosticism.
2.
Uncertain of all claims to knowledge.  Synonym: agnostical.



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"Agnostic" Quotes from Famous Books



... the entrance to Chancery Lane, and was for nearly thirty years an exceedingly pleasant rendezvous of book-collectors, and whose proprietor was one of the most genial of bibliopoles. The third is Edward Truelove, of 256, High Holborn, the well-known agnostic bookseller, who removed here from the Strand, and who had been in business over forty years. Mr. Truelove retired two or three years since. Further up the road, in New Oxford Street, we find the shop of Mr. James Westell, whose career as a bookseller embraces a period of over half a century, ...
— The Book-Hunter in London - Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting • William Roberts

... which for some years he boldly described as Atheism. His religious opinions were afterwards modified (or so he supposed) by S. T. Coleridge; but that influence is not conspicuous in his posthumous essay on religion, and the best label for his attitude is perhaps Huxley's word, "Agnostic." ...
— Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle • H. N. Brailsford



Words linked to "Agnostic" :   soul, gnostic, mortal, agnostical, individual, religious person, nescient, agnosticism, unbelieving, person, someone, somebody



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