Quotes About Degrees

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

There are degrees of obsession, of awareness, of grief, of insanity.

There are thousands of degrees and variations, but it is always clearly the attitude of a person who finds his superiority in solving the complications of others.

He was a psychologist, and degrees in psychology, I find, often conceal deviant tendencies.

All the medical examiners in the state of Florida are forensic pathologists with medical degrees.

Let none presumeTo wear an undeserved dignity.O! that estates, degrees, and officesWere not deriv'd corruptly, and that clear honorWere purchas'd by the merit of the wearer.

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

Hell has degrees, so does love

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

Education used to be a slice of life, something you did as a child through college, and then spent the rest of your life working, and then death. Everything is about to change. I believe education will become something that fits seamlessly into life, and we will take big clunky things like degrees and college and fit them into a weekend.

I don't think that writing talent has much to do with where one went to school, or the number of degrees on one's business card, but I do get a bit bristly at the implication that romance authors couldn't possibly be smart enough to get into an Ivy League school.

In 2010, half of Asian Americans 25 years old or older held bachelor's degrees, compared with 28 percent of the White population (Bureau of the Census 2011a).

Oh, I'm not offended. But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced flyfishing, I became too stinkin' proud to use the title. I won't touch watered whiskey and take no pride in watered-down degrees. Call me Jubal." "Oh. But the degree in medicine hasn't been watered down." "Time they called it something else, so as not to confuse it with playground supervisors.

To prove that degrees, per se, are worthless. Often they are honorifics of true scientists or learned scholars or inspired teachers. Much more frequently they are false faces for overeducated jackasses.

Our universities teach non-white, non-Christian, and female students to find offense everywhere. American students get degrees in Finding Offense.

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy when the school's so-called counselors are nothing more than misguided do-gooders with degrees. -Artemis Fowl

Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.

remedial work needed? It often is. In my introductory political science classes, I encounter far too many students who cannot write coherently. I would like to think this is being remedied in composition courses, since without that competence they can't do college-level work. But it's quite another thing to say that all undergraduates need advanced algebra to proceed toward their degrees.

I have an accounting degree and a law degree and had never really used either.

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

My brother's got two degrees. He got one for me.