Degrees Quotes

• When I was in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn't on the Internet. So it's not as embedded in my soul, that kind of way of being.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • Soul
  • Kind
  • Internet

• Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

  

  Shakuntala Devi
  • Life
  • Degrees
  • Absorbing

• The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Strive
  • Strife
  • Masonic

• To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • World
  • War
  • Eyes

• I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • People
  • Impress
  • Columbia

• My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • Political
  • Careers
  • Popularity

• The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

  

  William Falconer
  • May
  • Ships
  • Velocity

• Every day in every way I am growing more prosperous, successful, victorious. I am made for peace, health, and plenty, and I am now experiencing them in ever-increasing degrees of good.

  

  Catherine Ponder
  • Successful
  • Plenty
  • Prosperous

• A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

  

  Emmanuel Levinas
  • Reason
  • Miracle
  • Shock

• 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.

  

  Murray Walker
  • Way
  • Failing
  • Rounds

• The difference is no less real because it is of degree.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Real
  • Differences
  • Degrees

• The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil society. It was to be, in the first instance, in a considerable degree a government of accommodation as well as a government of Laws. Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.

  

  George Washington
  • Experiments
  • Establishment
  • Compact

• An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess.

  

  Wilma Mankiller
  • Blood
  • Degrees
  • Cards

• I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.

  

  Vincent Piazza
  • Thinking
  • Stories
  • Jersey

• In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I've wanted to be an author as long as I can remember. English was always my favorite subject at school, so why I went on to do a degree in French is anyone's guess.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Long
  • School
  • Why

• When you feel this knowledge and this spark in yourself, you've gotta continue feeding it. The best thing is to spend time around other wise men, that keeps it burning. That keeps it in every degree sharp as steel, but make sure you absorb enough to find out how it sparks from yourself, how the self starts the self. Once you've got that you should be free. That's freedom, to me.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Men
  • Feels
  • Wise

• I've been guilty of most of the stuff that's been said about me to some degree. And if I ain't done it, I probably will.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Done
  • Guilty
  • Degrees

• There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

  

  William James
  • Different
  • Differences
  • Mysticism

• A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... ; like any other theory of empirical science, it can acquire only a more or less high degree of confirmation.

  

  Carl Gustav Hempel
  • Certainty
  • Interpretation
  • Mathematical

• We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Work
  • Order
  • Numbers

• Some relaxation is necessary to people of every degree; the head that thinks and the hand that labors, must have some little time to recruit their diminished powers.

  

  Bernard Gilpin
  • People
  • Labor
  • Relaxation

• Kodokan is, to a large degree, a trendsetter in the sport. This school trained outstanding masters and is a kind of Mecca for all judokas. Certainly, I would be pleased to visit, if time permits.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • School
  • Kind
  • Sports

• A lot of the characters I end up playing have a certain degree of glamour or sexiness, but I like it when you can have some other element that makes it much more interesting.

  

  Erin Cummings
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Certain

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