David Hockney Quotes

Some felt I'm not academically qualified, and they're right.

I'm married to a dear little girl who holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT.

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 don't have a college degree.

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

I have not the advantage of a classical education, and no man should, in my judgement, accept a degree he cannot read.

Sihanouk developed an education system very well, and that was in some ways its undoing, because there was education where they produced a lot of graduates, but there was no service industry to absorb these graduates. So you had a lot of graduates pulling rickshaws to carry passengers. That development led to a huge unrest among youth.

I got my undergraduate degree in chemical engineering.

My first qualification is I didn't go to Columbia Journalism School.

For a man with an impressive educational C.V., Ben Carson makes a lot of intellectual missteps.

I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.

[Degree in English] gave me a little more self-confidence, to know that I'd managed to complete something like that.

My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.

Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil.

I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'

A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.

The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence.

I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.

You have a college degree? You can barely talk.

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whether he was educated.

Education is what allows you to stand out