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.
Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.
Men must be taught as if you taught them not
And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
'Tis education forms the common mind;
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy,
Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great.
Here the heart
May give a useful lesson to the head,
And learning wiser grow without his books.
Were man to live coeval with the sun,
The patriarch-pupil would be learning still.
Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.
O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her
And be her sense but as a monument.
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
And look on death itself!
But I pray you, let none of your people stir me: I have an exposition of sleep come upon me.
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
You have absolute control over but one thing, and that is your thoughts.