Degree

Famous quotes containing the word degree:

“So that if you would form a just judgment of what is of infinite importance to you not to be misled in,—namely, in what degree of real merit you stand ... call in religion and morality.—Look,—What is written in the law of God?—How readest thou?—Consult calm reason and the unchangeable obligations of justice and truth;Mwhat say they?”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

“A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“There are no ninety degree angles in the Garden of Delight.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)