| "By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action." »Albert Einstein |
| "Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word 'academic' in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation." »Myron Tribus |
| "The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process." »Herbert Butterfield |
| "A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind." »George Will |
| "The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered." »Felix Adler |
| "One forgives to the degree that one loves." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom." »Bob Dylan |
| "It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society." »Michel Eyquem de Montaigne |
| "Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology." »Clive James |
| "It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears." »Rod Serling |
| "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." »Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| "Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise." »Bertrand Russell |
| "A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love." »Stendhal |
| "I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others. - from When Galaxies Collide" »John Ryman |
| "To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves." »Peter McWilliams |
| "In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment with some degree of knowledge." »William Baker |
| "The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego." »Albert Einstein |
| "It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts." »Millard Fuller |
| "Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating." »Harold Rosenberg |
| "A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life." »Reverend Edward A. Malloy |
| "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." »Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle |
| "Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out." »Michael Korda |
| "A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life." »Eric Hoffer |
| "I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic." »Lisa Alther |
| "Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains. . .But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree. . .when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius |
| "The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means." »Sir Henry Taylor |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
