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What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.
I have a Ph.D. in masturbation.
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.
When you succeed, you become the professor of the world
We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you've got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.
Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
Two doctorates. My mother would be so happy. If you didn't have a dick.
My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.
Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families.
In 1990, I was an undergraduate freshman archeology major sneaking over to the English building and unearthing an amazing repository of books I'd never even suspected. By 1998, I'd have my Ph.D.
Get a PHD No, not a doctoral degree. I mean a PHD attitude: Poor, Hungry and Driven.
Being honored at Berklee College of Music; I got a doctorate. I am Doctor Patti.
After qualifying for a B.Sc. in pharmacology, I spent a few months in Sheffield University as a research worker in the pharmacology department but then went back to Oxford to the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research in order to study for a D. Phil. with Dr. Geoffrey Dawes.
My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.
Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research.
The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one gaveyard to another.
I do worry a lot about the time it takes for people to get a PhD, about the difficulty of finding employment, about the difficulty of getting tenure, and generally about the perception that undergraduates have, that this is a very high-risk career to get started.
Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive.
The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.
Certain majors [lables] just know what they're doin', and got a good grip on the dynamic of what's happening, and some don't.
There are some mistakes only someone with a Ph.D. can make.
Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.
Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.
I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry-which I now realize is like saying I studied vivisection because I loved dogs.
No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which universities were originally created!
Anyway, you don't have to be terribly intelligent to complete a PhD," Karim grumps. "You just need to be stupidly persistent. If anything, being too smart gets in the way -
I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D.
Regardless of any title I'll ever hold, the most important job I'll ever have is spelled D-A-D.
Academics are becoming much more entrepreneurial these days.
My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student.
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.
Phd without common sense is nonsense
On completing my degree, I started a Ph.D. in statistics, although I knew very little about the topic. My supervisor was Professor Harry Pitt, who was an excellent pure mathematician and probabilist.
North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?
My brother's got two degrees. He got one for me.
from a career as an economics
Professorship is not a career, but rather a life's pursuit. The people with whom I work daily exemplify and remind me of this promise.
[ Computing ] is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing
I don't really think in career terms.
Masters of Sex is the degree I got from Boston College.
Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.
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.
The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.
I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.
There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
I have a doctorate in fine arts from Knox College in Illinois. All I did was give a speech, and now everybody has to call me Dr. Colbert.
Physicists dream of Nobel prizes, engineers dream of mishaps.
All our lives, we've been taught to defer to experts: teachers, doctors, and investment "professionals." But ultimately, expertise is about results. You can have the fanciest degrees from the fanciest schools, but if you can't perform what you were hired to do, your expertise is meaningless. In
The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist.
My dad's a biophysicist. My brother is a computer guy. His wife works at Microsoft.
By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD.
Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you're a performance artist.
One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.
Internists know everything but do nothing; surgeons know nothing but do everything; psychiatrists know nothing and do nothing; and pathologists know everything and do everything, but it is too late.
Most people thing that the purpose of education is to acquire a degree, a qualification. So what is this degree of B.A.? B.A.+D (D stands for degree) becomes BAD, and if you are more qualified you are M.A.+D = MAD!
I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.
University University of Toronto University of Nebraska
I don't have an M.B.A. I have a doctoral degree in philosophy - nineteenth-century German philosophy, to be precise.
Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful.
More Brazilian women earn Ph.D.s every year than do men.
These are the Disciplines that can change everything!
For the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we may be able to engage.
In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.
You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'
I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology ... the study of milkmen.
Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university.
Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they look up and see a sliver of the sky. They know everything about that little sliver of sky and nothing else. I scan all my horizons.
In the business world it's not what you know, it's who you know. In the academic world it's not who you know, it's whom you know.
The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.
How grand, to be a Doctor of whatever and to weigh up and decide people's future.
My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
If I stay in academia, I might end up going someplace random.
Great American thinker and philosopher Earl Nightingale said, "If you spend one extra hour each day in the study of your chosen field, you'll be a national expert in five years or less." What do you want to be an expert in?
Various circumstances, mainly to do with my military service, prevented me from doing a Ph.D., and I have often regretted it, though you do need to choose the 'right' supervisor in the 'right' discipline - no easy task when you are totally inexperienced.
Some boys go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. The latter are called professors.
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.
I had an interest in health policy and a realization that, as an academic physician, one of the things you're always looking to do is to have your clinical interests and your scholarly interests overlap and reinforce one another.
Graduate study is an intensive education.
If people would turn their TVs off for half the time, study science and practice an instrument, they'd be virtuosos and have Ph.Ds!
There are growing buds in universities which will freshen the future.
I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'
If you could arrange to avoid that routine job-world, you were an intellectual or an artist. Too restless, tremorous, agitated, too mad to sit at a desk eight hours a day, you needed an institution - a higher institution.
My degree was in opera.
Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.
I'm completely dyslexic, so academia was never really my path.
When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue; you look for somebody who knows the terrain. It's about context.
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A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.
My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.
I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.
You'll marry your studies? Marry your books? You already have one degree but you want another. You'll marry your degrees?
By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world.' So I started working for newspapers.
Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom.
Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what's behind it.
You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses.
I went to the University of Washington in Seattle. This was a very good place to study, and I learned a lot. But it wasn't the right place for my Ph.D.