University Degrees Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

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• 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

  Education, Fall, Thinking

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• A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

  Henry Ford

  Mean, College, Men

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• We must have a university degree even if we never get a job in the area of knowledge we were forced to study.

  Paulo Coelho

  Jobs, Inspiration, Words Of Wisdom

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• If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

  Paul Keating

  Class, Greed, Political

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• So I want to identify, if I can, the most important thing that we discover in life. At least, it is the most important thing that I have discovered. I will share it with you, like a precious jewel, fit for this occasion. I refer to love. Love for one another. Love for our community. Love for others everywhere in the world. Love transcends even scholarship, cleverness and university degrees. It is greater than pride and wealth. It endures when worldly vanities fade.

  Michael Kirby

  Love, Pride, Vanity

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• Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

  Clive James

  Graduation, Technology, College

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• Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

  Bill Ackman

  Opportunity, Scams, Fraud

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• University degrees are a bit like adultery: You may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable.

  Peter Imbert, Baron Imbert

  Inspirational, Education, May

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• 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

  Educational, Unity, Mind

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• I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.

  Keith Murray

  Regret, Stupid, Thinking

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• It is not true that only those people come to Islamic State who have experienced no success in life. Among them are many people who have university degrees, people who were well-established. But they all see the inequities that we Muslims have long experienced and want to fight against them.

  Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

  Islamic, Fighting, Long

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you look at the 9/11 highjackers, certainly they were educated, some even had university degrees, but nobody really checked their mothers, who were nearly all illiterate.

  Greg Mortenson

  Mother, Looks, Educated

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• In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.

  Renny Harlin

  Children, Kids, Firsts

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• 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

  Art, Book, Play

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• The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

  Emma Bonino

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• 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

  Expression, Common Sense, Black

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• Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.

  Sarah Palin

  Independent, Common Sense, Lasts

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• 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

  Blue, Games, Jeans

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• I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

  Marcel Dzama

  Artist, Outsiders, Painting

  Source: therumpus.net

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