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.
There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.
The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.
Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker.
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt.
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed?