Best degrees & form Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.”

Different War Form Turns Decision Situation Moral Issues Military Battle Degrees Constant Factors Wars And Battles

Book:Why Don't We Learn from History?

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry - Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... The existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that Euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."”

Different Form Science Used Term Challenges Levels Existence Study Higher Degrees Standards Claims Patterns Complexity Geometry Exhibits Different Levels Fragmented Euclid Morphology

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?”

Men Art Soul Shows Form Degrees Creating Awe Show Me Ceremony Adoration

Book:King Henry V: Third Series

Source: King Henry V: Third Series

“The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.”

Form Order Courses Heaven Lines Planets Office Degrees Seasons Priorities Proportion Customs Centre

Author:William Shakespeare

“Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by giving thought not only to the aim but to the method of approach. Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek to turn it by flank movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the thrust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth- for nothing is more fatal to its real advancement than to lapse into untruth.”

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically the same. There's only a difference of degree. We both have the same basic form of government: economic totalitarianism. In other words, the settlement to all questions, the solutions to all issues are determined not by what will make the people most healthy and happy in their bodies and their minds but by economics. Dollars or rubles.”

Source: Another Roadside Attraction

“King is a title which translated into several languages, signifies a magistrate with as many different degrees of power as there are kingdoms in the world, and he can have no power but what is given him by law; yea, even the supreme or legislative power is bound by the rules of equity, to govern by laws enacted, and published in due form; for what is not legal is arbitrary.”

World Different Form Law Language Given Kings Degrees Bounds Dues Supreme Kingdoms Titles Equity Arbitrary Magistrates

Book:A Supplement to the Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot

Source: A Supplement to the Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot

“Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be.”

Men Shows Form Mines He Man Lovers Moon Speech Degrees Fairs Dear Thee Features True Lovers

Book:Poetical Works Complete in One Volume

Source: Poetical Works Complete in One Volume

“If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.”

Ifs Men Form Greater Degrees Ancient Nobility Descent

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“It is sometimes easier to form a party than to attain by degrees the head of a party already formed.”

Sometimes Form Political Party Easier Degrees Political Parties

Book:La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“The individual representation of the object, treated sympathetically or antipathetically, is highly necessary and is an enrichment to the world in form. The elimination of the human relationship causes the vacuum which makes all of us suffer in various degrees - an individual alteration of the details of the object represented is necessary in order to display on the canvas the whole physicals reality.”

Source: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

“Anti-intellectualism ... has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the administering of hemlock, in another of town-and-gown riots, in another of censorship and regimentation, in still another of Congressional investigations.”

Has Beens Stills Form Degrees Towns Censorship Investigation Riot Gowns Intellectualism Hemlock Regimentation

Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

“The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful.”

Thinking Wells Form Fronts Events Particular Degrees Standards Insanity Captains Crew Lifelong Aberration

Author:Hal Clement

“How a designer gets from thought to thing is, at least in broad strokes, straightforward: (1) A designer conceives a purpose. (2) To accomplish that purpose, the designer forms a plan. (3) To execute the plan, the designer specifies building materials and assembly instructions. (4) Finally, the designer or some surrogate applies the assembly instructions to the building materials. What emerges is a designed object, and the designer is successful to the degree that the object fulfills the designer's purpose.”

Form Purpose Successful Plans Objects Building Materials Degrees Accomplish Designer Broads Instruction Strokes Assembly Straightforward Surrogates Building Materials

Book:No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without Intelligence

Source: No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without Intelligence

“The Berbers, among whom even today one finds light skins and blue eyes, do not go back to the Vandal invasions of the fifth century A.D., but to the prehistoric Atlantic Nordic human wave. The Kabyle huntsmen, for example, are to no small degree still wholly Nordic (thus the blond Berbers in the region of Constantine form 10 % of the population; at Djebel Sheshor they are even more numerous).”

Humans Stills Light Eye Today Form Century Example Degrees Skins Blue Wave Population Regions Fifth Invasion Blue Eyes Prehistoric Constantine Nordic Vandals

Author:Alfred Rosenberg

“People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you upon that which they have of your friends; and there is a Spanish proverb which says vry justly, 'Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are.'”

People Reason Form Friendship Opinion Degrees Who You Are Spanish Proverb

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.”

Humans Character Form Desire Human Beings Degrees Ideals Perfection Imperfection Portions

Book:Success and Its Conditions

Source: Success and Its Conditions

“Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.”

Source: The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study

“Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form.”

Source: Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes

“The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and the pleasures at His right hand, the absence of all evil, the presence and enjoyment of all good, and this good enduring to eternity, never more to be taken from us, never more to be in any, the least degree, diminished, but forever increasing, these are the wreaths which form the contexture of that crown held forth to our hopes.”

Hands Form Evil Hope Heaven Pleasure Forever Taken Honor Degrees Eternity Endure Riches Absence Enjoyment Crowns Wreaths

Author:Thomas Hartwell Horne

“With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.”

Thinking Bigs Age Form Band Degrees Pops Strict Conform Pop Music Format Parameters Downloads

Author:David Byrne

“Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.”

Way Self Body Form Death Found Goal Steps Dying Degrees Worthy Your Body Familiar Evident

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the actual circumstances of an event, the actual topography of a landscape--should be nothing without the form, the spirit of the handling, that this form, this mode of handling, should become an end in itself, should penetrate every part of the matter;Mthis is what all art constantly strives after, and achieves in different degrees.”

Should Art Different Ends Matter Form Spirit Poetry Given Situation Achieve Subjects Events Poet Circumstances Degrees Unity Mere Strive Instance Landscape Strife Penetrate Incidents Topography

Author:Walter Pater

“As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without contributing in some degree, though the book itself be afterwards totally forgotten, to form the character.”

Children Book Character Form Reading Interest Degrees Mark Forgotten Clay Contributing

Book:The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

Source: The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

“A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.”

Men Should Able Form Education Modern Degrees Instruments Musical Ancient Educated Tunes Convenience Musical Instruments Educated Man

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“I'm all for reforming our higher education system, in the 21st century, to have the skills you need for a middle-class job, you need higher education of some form or fashion. It may not be a four-year degree. The problem is he just wants to pour that additional money into the broken, existing system.”

Want Needs Years May Problem Jobs Form Education Class Four Middle Century Fashion Broken Higher Skills Degrees Middle Class Four Years 21st Century Education System Higher Education

Author:Marco Rubio

“The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.”

Persons Government Form Numbers Society Security Comfort Degrees Communicate Ease One Word Forms Of Government

Book:The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

“Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and moral philosophers will agree that the happiness of the individual is the end of man. From this principle it will follow that the form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest numbers of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best. All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.”

Source: The Works of John Adams: Controversial papers of the Revolution (continued) Works on government

“Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company and later my degree course all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.”

Stories Form Courses Company Youth Students Degrees Theater Manchester Telling Stories

Author:Justin Chadwick

“Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.”

Form Attention Subjects Degrees Intellectual Obligation Adherence

Book:Letter to a Priest

Source: Letter to a Priest

“Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration.”

People Government Form Nations Community Common Security Danger Ought Degrees Benefits Capable Safety Various Protection Forms Of Government Secured

Author:George Mason

“As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone - which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.”

Humans Heart Feelings Form Degrees Scripture Interpretation Human Heart

Book:Unspoken Sermons

Source: Unspoken Sermons

“Death can be understood as the passage from one form to another, from a limited degree of life to another higher, freer one. It is wrong to assume that everything ends with death; what ends is only the temporary conditions in which people have lived on earth.”

People Ends Earth Form Conditions Higher Degrees Understood Assuming Temporary Passages

Author:Peter Deunov

“Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every one has a just influence, as is the case in England in a slight degree, and in our states, in a great one. 3. Under governments of force: as is the case in all other monarchies and in most of the other republics. To have an idea of the curse of existence under these last, they must be seen. It is a government of wolves over sheep.”

Ideas States Government Lasts Form Three Force Existence Cases Influence Degrees England Curse Republic Sheep Monarchy Great Ones

Book:Jefferson: Writings

Source: Jefferson: Writings

“Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.”

World Form Opportunity Chance Growing Up Growing Ready Needed Degrees India Prepared Changing The World Engineering Good Opportunity

Author:Naveen Jain

“Charles V used to say that "the more languages a man knew, he was so many more times a man." Each new form of human speech introduces one into a new world of thought and life. So in some degree is it in traversing other continents and mingling with other races. As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.”

Men World Humans Form Used Language Race Speech Degrees Wings Excellence Tongue More Time New World Introducing Continents Hawks Mingling

Author:Roger Ascham

“Water, like many other resources is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to the survival of all forms of life. The underlying question that sits at the core of my exploration is to what degree can we shape water before it begins to shape us.”

Form Used Water Shapes Degrees Survival Resources Aspect Critical Core Exploration

Author:Edward Burtynsky

“You will permit me to say, that a greater drama is now acting on this theatre than has heretofore been brought on the American tage, or any other in the world. We exhibit at present the novel and astonishing spectacle of a whole people deliberating calmly on what form of government will be most conducive to their happiness; and deciding with an unexpected degree of unanimity in favour of a system which they conceive calculated to answer the purpose.”

People World Whole Government Form Purpose Answers Acting Novel Greater Drama Degrees Theatre Unexpected Permit Favour Astonishing Exhibits Forms Of Government Unanimity

Author:George Washington

“Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively, acting as part of mass-movements, that it's become hard for us to imagine a form of politics that is based on a high degree of introspection and self-examination.”

Thinking Self Hard Form Political Term Acting Imagine Movement Buddhism Degrees Mass Introspection Examination Self-examination

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“We all have a responsibility, and as Rabbi Heschel, one of my prophets, has put it: "Those who condone, or are silent, in the face of injustice, are more guilty than the perpetrators." And so, to the degree we pretend to be a democracy, we have a corresponding duty to be activist enough to prevent our human rights form being infringed upon.”

Humans Enough Faces Form Responsibility Democracy Rights Duty Degrees Silent Injustice Human Rights Guilty Prophet Activist Corresponding Rabbi Perpetrators

Author:Ray McGovern

“In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.”

Has Beens Form Certain Social Economic Degrees Socialism Economic Equality

Author:Indira Gandhi

“There are certain ways, narrative forms, that do not function as a continuation, for example, of 3D movies. You see, what is obvious to me is virtual reality or immersive 360 degrees virtual reality is not somehow a part of 3D movies, and it is not a new form of video games, it's neither, it is something completely new, something different, and nobody has come up yet with real convincing content.”

Way Different Real Reality Form Certain Games Example Degrees Function Come Up Obvious Video Narrative Convincing Virtual Reality Continuation

Author:Werner Herzog

“The bad news is that the movement toward the partnership side of the social scale (and it is always a matter of degree, as no society is a pure partnership or domination system) has been fiercely resisted and countered by periodic regressions. So domination systems have rebuilt themselves in different forms - be they secular or religious, eastern or western, leftist or rightist.”

Has Beens Different Matter Form Social Sides Religious Movement Pure Degrees News Western Scales Partnership Secular Eastern Domination Bad News Leftists Regression

Author:Riane Eisler

“A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.”

Knows Seems Form Lying Language White Communication Degrees Inherent White Lie

Author:Matthew Lesko

“Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.”

Men Firsts Self Form Awareness Exercise Degrees Conscience Men And Women Adversity Self Awareness Extras Fasting Identifying

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23”

“The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.”

Humans Form Language Degrees Capable Comprehension Human Wisdom

Book:Elektra

Source: Elektra

“Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe that most people have some degree of talent for something--forms, colors, words, sounds. Talent lies around in us like kindling waiting for a match, but some people, just as gifted as others, are less lucky. Fate never drops a match on them. The times are wrong, or their health is poor, or their energy low, or their obligations too many. Something.”

People Feels Believe Form Lying Energy I Believe Waiting Sound Poor Fate Talent Color Lucky Degrees Lows Praise Hearing Obligation Pleasant Gifted Obliged Kindling Pleasant Things

Book:Crossing to Safety

Source: Crossing to Safety

“...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities. It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though is was a one-fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us shares this delusion.”

World States Form Speak Heaven Share Stage Ego Degrees Eating Highest Regard Unity Chaos Breathing Fixed Delusion Phenomenon Inheritance Imperatives Folds Detached Manifold

Book:Steppenwolf

Source: Steppenwolf

“Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s (God’s) ground…He [God] made the pleasure: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy [God] has produced, at at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He [God] has forbidden.”

Way Humans Made Form Can Do Forget Pleasure Enemy Produce Healthy Degrees Normal Research Never Forget Satisfying Forbidden Screwtape Letters

Author:C. S. Lewis

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