Phd Quote by J. Frank Dobie

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

— J. Frank Dobie

“The great novelists are philosophical novelists--that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.”

— Albert Camus

“Take as much care with words expressing your sentiments as you will crafting your doctoral dissertation.”

— Marisha Pessl

“The throb of life is love. Without it, humans are bodies of bones clad with skin”

— Tirukkural: 80 Tiruvalluvar

“I would rather get a PhD than stand to reach for toilet paper. Though some readers might emphasize the similarities between the two activities.”

— Rhoda Janzen

“My words are my thesis, my actions are my dissertation, and my life is my philosophy.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“I fell into unconsciousness reflecting rather abstractly that I'd never even known that there were two bones in a man's forearm.”

— Mark Lawrence

“Perhaps, after all, the greatest psychologist is not the metaphysician but the novelist.”

— Walter Besant

“In the end, everyone is aware of this: nobody keeps any of what he has, and life is only a borrowing of bones.”

— Pablo Neruda

“Bones were bones; these days, nothing was easier to come by.”

— George R.R. Martin

I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

— Whitfield Diffie

“The bones are hard and by themselves seem dead and stony, but by rooting into and pulling against the skeleton, the rest of the…

— Orson Scott Card