Degree Quotes

1888 Degree quotes by 1428 unique authors

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
There are many paths to enlightenment. Some of us who have expanded to a degree of illumination have thereafter preached the dogmatic certainty of one… — Thaddeus Golas
As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made regarding what emotions are aroused… — Edgar Cayce
That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is… — Hugh Miller
I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation. — Cardinal Richelieu
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice,… — Georges Bernanos
Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help… — Hippocrates
The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is not… — Wilfred Trotter
To be successful, a man must exert an effective influence upon his brothers and upon his associates, and the degree in which he accomplishes this… — Vince Lombardi
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious. — William E. Gladstone
We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in… — Ibn Hazm

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