Quotes and Sayings About Degrees
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Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi -
Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.
-- Abraham Kuyper -
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.
-- Abu Dawood -
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
-- Adam Clarke -
Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.
-- Adam Clarke -
Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
-- Adam Gopnik -
It takes a lot of strength to hold onto and care for the things we love, so why is it that god seems to have made humans unable to conjure up that degree of power and love?
-- Ai Yazawa -
In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.
-- Aime Martin -
The interior of the earth is extremely hot – several million degrees.
-- Al Gore -
Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.
-- Al-Ghazali -
Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.
-- Alan Brennert -
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.
-- Alan Furst -
I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.
-- Alan Kay -
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.
-- Alan Watts -
The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.
-- Albert Einstein -
Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.
-- Albert Einstein -
I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the ***** ballgame.
-- Albert Ellis -
To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General (33rd Degree Masons), we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees: 'The Masonic religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine.'
-- Albert Pike -
All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.
-- Albert Pike -
The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.
-- Aldo Leopold -
There are degrees and kinds of solitude. ... I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.
-- Aldo Leopold -
The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
Don't need a degree in rocket science to do this job.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith -
It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
But might not his [the president's] nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for another nomination by himself. The person ultimately appointed must be object of his preference, though perhaps not in the first degree. It is also not very probable that his nomination would often be overruled.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing; it will be powerfull cement of our union. It will also create a necessity for keeping up taxation to a degree which without being oppressive, will be a spur to industry;
-- Alexander Hamilton -
I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
-- Alexander Payne -
Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
-- Alexander Pope
