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Degrees Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of…
- Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the world and human…
- I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.
- A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became…
- There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the existence of the…
- All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.
- I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.
- The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
- Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
- Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater…
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- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. — Paul Auster
- It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he… — Charles Babbage
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- Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which… — Honore de Balzac
- There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. — Francis Beaumont
- Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. — Ambrose Bierce
- Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. — Ambrose Bierce
- Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. — Ambrose Bierce