Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambrose Bierce

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
Ambrose Bierce

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
Ambrose Bierce

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri Frederic Amiel

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
Eric Hoffer

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
Eric Hoffer

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
Bertrand Russell

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
Honore de Balzac

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
Elizabeth Bowen

One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
Blaise Pascal

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
Ralph Marston

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
Thomas Fuller

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
Isaac Asimov

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
Samuel Johnson

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra Pound

The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.
Angela Merkel

If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.
Angela Merkel

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
George Santayana

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.
Albert Ellis