Quotes about Degrees
The sun has one degree of splendor, the moon another, and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.
- 1 Corinthians 15:41
The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing.
- Martin Luther
A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.
- Henry Ford
I also understood that there are many degrees of holiness, that each soul is free to respond to the calls of Our Lord, to do much or little for His Loveāin a word, to choose amongst the sacrifices He asks.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
One will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
An understanding of ordinary logic is no longer a required part of university degree programs, as was almost universally the case sixty years ago. Now, as a result, our world is full of uneducated people with higher degrees.
- Dallas Willard
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
- Anonymous
Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end. This is one reason why college degrees are not valued more highly. They represent nothing but miscellaneous knowledge.
- Napoleon Hill
The words "peace be multiplied" intimate that there are degrees of assurance concerning our standing with God.
- AW Pink
There are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self for God's sake.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
There are many mansions in God's house because heaven is intended for various degrees of honor and blessedness. Some are designed to sit in higher places there than others; some are designed to be advanced to higher degrees of honor and glory than others are; and, therefore, there are various mansions, and some more honorable mansions and seats, in heaven than others.
- Jonathan Edwards
In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.
- Stephen Covey