Degrees Quotes
No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which universities were originally created!
With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes.
Through the most simple things which we do all the time, we can feel out to which degree we honor everything with our inner attention.
Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.
Life comes from death. To the degree that I can live in the death of Jesus - to that degree I can channel God's life to others.
God cannot honor anything, no matter its degree of sincerity, if it is contrary to His Word.
We can only accept friendship from others to the degree that we give it to ourselves.
Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.
I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?
From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.
No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.
How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.
The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.
The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.
Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.
Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.
Everything I do, I want to take it to the farthest possible degree. I can't just do something the plain way. I don't cook a bowl of pasta; it has to be puff pastry swans.
Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.
You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.
The temple is a place of holiness. It is the most sacred and holy place on earth and should be treated with the greatest degree of reverence and respect.
Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.
Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs only in degree, but not in kind, from slavery.
Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.
Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.
You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.
After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.
The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree.
No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.