Degree Quotes

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Aristotle

Time, Power, Angry

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal

Love, Hope, Small

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
Swami Vivekananda

Everything, Secret, Oneness

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson

Small, Liberty, Rather

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mahatma Gandhi

Great, Works, Welfare

No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.
W. C. Fields

Women, Crazy, Doubt

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
John F. Kennedy

Education, Best, Said

One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Loves, Forgives

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan

Freedom, Someone, Hero

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
Edwin Louis Cole

Giving, Loving, Measured

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wisdom, Sense, Common

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Warren Buffett

Society, Teacher, Off

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Find, Hatred, Culture

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
Ernest Hemingway

Art, Death, Honor

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack Obama

War, Cannot, Succeed

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
Sigmund Freud

Value, Drive, Neurosis

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
B. R. Ambedkar

Women, Progress, Community

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Sigmund Freud

Happiness, Sense, High

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
Blaise Pascal

Strength, Mind, Shows

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Ambrose Bierce

Person, Laziness, Manner

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Love, Together, Soul

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
T. S. Eliot

Knowledge, Cannot, Put

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
Isaac Asimov

Business, Takes, Initiative

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
Bertrand Russell

Knowledge, Emotions, Facts

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambrose Bierce

Mad, High, Affected

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
Ambrose Bierce

High, Found, Ability

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Nature, Pain, Suffering

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Tom Brokaw

Life, Change, Good

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France

Acceptance, Personal, Against

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
James Madison

Men, Power, Ought

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