Graduation Quotes
Two of the most popular graduation lines are flagged. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself” is a paraphrase of John Dewey, not a quotation. The one about education being what remains after you have forgotten what you learned in school is credited to Einstein and flagged as misattributed.
The page is assembled from the pages on education, success, the future, dreams and learning. It has no graduation speeches in it, but it does have a lot of quotes that get used in them. If you are writing a speech, use the sourced entries; the label will tell you which is which.
People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it.
With mortal crisis doth portend
My days to appropinque an end.
A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.
We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
Our life is no dream, but it should and perhaps will become one.
You are walking on the earth as in a dream; Our world is a dream within a dream.
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
This education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in the world."
With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.