Degree Quotes

1888 Degree quotes by 1428 unique authors

A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life. — Unknown Author
No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity. — Dean Koontz
To please great men is not the last degree of praise. — Horace
In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there… — Caroline Paul
Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you. — Alan Ayckbourn
Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts. — Willard Libby
Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a… — Harry Frankfurt
...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But… — Christiaan Huygens
Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction. — Roger McDonald
[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. That's what… — David Quammen
I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it… — Brand Blanshard
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting… — Hermann von Helmholtz
It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in… — Joseph Murray
One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and enduring hostility... is… — Unknown Author
In life most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. Bad improvisers block action often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop… — Keith Johnstone
People who don't have the interest or aptitude for serious college studies at age 18 may find that later in life they do, but those… — George Leef
Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Each of us is affected by what happens to the other. Just as our movement interact on the field, so our lives interact to a… — Unknown Author
To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,… — William James
I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and… — Henry David Thoreau
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be… — David Hume
Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong… — Thomas Jefferson
Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments. — Thomas Merton
Acquisition of [higher] knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists of the attainment, thanks to this knowledge of… — Rudolf Steiner

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