The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything. — Robert Genn
Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives — Andreas Schleicher
In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do. — Renny Harlin
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B. — Fats Domino
I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university. — Jessica Raine
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree. — Bela Lugosi
I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane. — Mike Rowe
I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on. — Victoria Wood
It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree. — Bobby Scott
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. — Al McGuire
A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life. — Edward Malloy
The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail. — Tommy Chong
BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper. — Bobby Knight
To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees. — Munshi Premchand
A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity. — Dan Rather
Short University Degrees Quotes
I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine. — Karl von Frisch
I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science. — Sara Paretsky
Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age. — Malcolm Muggeridge
Nothing is more important than a good education. — Roy Wilkins
An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all — Socrates
I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one. — Jim Jarmusch
University Degrees Image Quotes
I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
Degrees 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
Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: 'St.' It's a much more difficult degree to attain. It takes a lifetime, and you don't get your diploma until you're dead. — Mother Angelica
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
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things. — Charlotte Mason
To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge. — Nicolaus Copernicus
We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. — William Faulkner
Believe you deserve it and the universe will serve it.
We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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
The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church. — Edith Stein
Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up. — Booker T. Washington
Bachelor's Degree Quotes
I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948. — Daniel J. Evans
a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes — Cole Porter
Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on. — David Eddings
Everything in the universe is whithin you. Ask all from yourself.
Women who are interested in pursuing bachelor's and master's degrees - especially in STEM fields - benefit from starting at a community college. They offer an affordable education, with flexible schedules and degrees close to home. — Jill Biden
If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma. — Walter E. Williams
I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities, math, and stuff like that. I think I had to take Art History, which I failed a few times. — Stephen Furst
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
I congratulate NUS for launching a new degree, a bachelor of environmental studies. This is a most timely initiative. One of the biggest challenges facing Asia is to reconcile Asia's rapid economic development with care for the environment. — Tommy Koh
Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. — Mark Kelly
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma. — Elijah Cummings
The time between Bachelor's degree and a PhD, the median time is over 11 years. So then you're still only on a tenure ladder, you're not tenured. So it generally takes 6 to 8 years after that to get tenure. So that's a very long period of what's essentially apprenticeship, of insecurity. — Louis Menand
University Education Quotes
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. — Unknown Author
It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Educators need to know what happens in the world of the children with whom they work. They need to know the universe of their dreams, the language with which they skillfully defend themselves from the aggressiveness of their world, what they know independently of the school, and how they know it. — Paulo Freire
Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else!
The Revolution won't happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and their political offices, transforming them slowly into Marxist entities as we move towards universal egalitarianism. — Max Horkheimer
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. — George Bernard Shaw
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute. — Loni Anderson
If you want to know what’s wrong with higher education, this reversal of traditional university priorities – with social justice now at the top and scholarship lower on the totem pole – is a good place to start. — Gad Saad
Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin. — Sayings
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. — Leonardo da Vinci
College Degree Quotes
According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his ability to ride, shoot straight, and speak the truth. Perhaps we should now grant our college degrees to young men who measure up to that standard. — Jeff Cooper
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. — Marian Wright Edelman
College degrees becoming increasingly worthless. This will only get worse. Why are we wasting money and resources on this? Fake degrees remove 3-5 labour years from market and cost public money spent on pointless edubureacracies. — Philip Pilkington
Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars.
Coming from losing my dream of playing professional football, not having a college degree at the time, and looking to jump into the business world at a young age was pretty daunting for me. — Lewis Howes
It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. — Millard Fuller
The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college. — Tony Hillerman
Follow your dreams and the universe will open doors where there we only walls.
For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim. — Joshua Jackson
Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist. — William Raspberry
Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree. — Ruth Ann Minner
If you’re not familiar with it, a college degree is a thing that we tell our kids to buy with money they don’t have, in hopes that it will help them make money they might earn, which will give them the ability to pay back the money they spent in order to make the money they’re paying it back with. — Matt Walsh
Masters Degree Quotes
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
MIT is the cream of the crop, there are no second-stringers there. Even the janitors at MIT have master's degrees. — Ronald McNair
You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses. — Sally Jessy Raphael
When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.
I work hard at it [delivery of lyrics], just like I worked hard at getting my masters degree. It's not just something I sit down and do. You have to learn and keep learning. — Gil Scott-Heron
I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology. — Frederick Reines
My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference. — Charles Portis
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. — Michael J. Fox
I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life. A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side. — Black Francis
Accept people, don't stereotype people. Don't think because right now they're driving a cab, they're not going to have a master's degree or that they're dumber than you. — Isabel Coixet
I have my Master's Degree but I learned more at my dinner table than any class I ever took. My dad would come home from the sweat factory and put the money on the table and say Mea, here is some money for insurance and food and we always had that little extra for Friday night pizza at Barcelona's. — Dick Vitale
If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours. — Paul Keating
Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game. — Oriana Fallaci
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis. — Sigmund Freud
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception. — Terence McKenna
There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place. A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man, and every man shall be his own priest. — Walt Whitman
After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result. — Frederick Sanger
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. — Sigmund Freud
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unity of minds, natural love and co-operation, are the qualities we have to develop today. Education is not for securing university degrees. — Sai Baba
The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out. — Carl Sagan
Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together. — Jon Secada
The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever. — Isaac Newton
Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made phrases, which seem in a common-sense way to fill a need-or have a hidden subtlety, a permanent rub. — Frantz Fanon
Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind. — Sayings
Common grace curbs the destructive power of sin, maintains in a measure the moral order of the universe, thus making an orderly life possible, distributes in varying degrees gifts and talents among men, promotes the development of science and art, and showers untold blessings upon the children of men. — Louis Berkhof
A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them. — Henry Ford
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete. — Norman Cousins
The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it. — Elie Wiesel
Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students who are just barely literate and computationally incompetent. — Walter E. Williams
Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the loneliness of the process. — Loren Eiseley
To whatever degree you listen and follow your intuition, you become a creative channel for the higher power of the universe. — Shakti Gawain
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
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. — Sayings
I don't know whether the universe, with its countless galaxies, stars and planets, has a deeper meaning or not, but at the very least, it is clear that we humans who live on this earth face the task of making a happy life for ourselves. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness. — Dalai Lama
The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us. — Kenneth L. Pike
So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it. — Elizabeth Moon
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. — Clive James
I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree. — Ted Shackelford
Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud. — Bill Ackman
I had a teacher's degree and a degree in Oriental Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts. I thought I was going to India to study but all of a sudden, I had a career in music. It really surprised me. — Buffy Sainte-Marie
We want to see the universe in its absolute, pure, naked, perfection. We want to know its wonder. We want to know the totality of ourselves. That's done in steps and degrees and not in one day. — Frederick Lenz
Tobacco, in its various forms, is one of the most mischievous of all drugs. There is perhaps no other drug which injures the body in so many ways and so universally as does tobacco. Some drugs offer a small degree of compensation for the evil effects which they produce; but tobacco has not a single redeeming feature and gives nothing in return. — John Harvey Kellogg
My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books. — Jude Deveraux
In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate. — Simon Newcomb
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. — Emma Bonino
Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it was lowly Birmingham University. But even when I came out with my degree, my mother promptly insisted I go straight to secretarial college to have something to fall back on, just in case - which didn't exactly fill me with confidence. — Tamsin Greig
I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed. — Aristotle
The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a hypocrisy everyone is happier not to expose. Occasionally some students do arrive for an education but rote and mechanical nature of the institution soon converts them to a less idealic attitude — Robert M. Pirsig
[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free. — Siva Vaidhyanathan
Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of tension, emotion, even irrationality, which could cumulatively produce circumstances that preclude an effective and genuinely shared universal response to new global problems. — Zbigniew Brzezinski
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