Degree Quotes

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love. (Aristotle)
The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts – the less you know the hotter you get. View quote
Bertrand Russell
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. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Piety is not an end but a means to attain by the greatest peace of mind the highest degree of culture. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others. View quote
John Travolta
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. View quote
Tom Brokaw
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. View quote
James Madison
The art of living easily as to money, is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. (Henry Taylor)
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. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed. View quote
William Whewell
The first degree of folly is to conceit one's self wise the second to profess it the third to despise counsel. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree. View quote
W. C. Fields
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. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. View quote
Eric Hoffer
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. View quote
Barack Obama
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture. View quote
Tadao Ando
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. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. View quote
George Eliot