| "Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war" »Hermocrates of Syracuse |
| "In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities." »Aristotle |
| "One forgives to the degree that one loves." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears." »Rod Serling |
| "I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom." »Bob Dylan |
| "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 might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise." »Bertrand Russell |
| "To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves." »Peter McWilliams |
| "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 |
| "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." »Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| "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 |
| "Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts." »Millard Fuller |
| "No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating." »Harold Rosenberg |
| "By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "If you seek yourself,...you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means." »Dag Hammarskjld |
| "Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom." »Bernard De Voto |
| "In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms." »Stephen Jay Gould |
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