Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
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.
How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown.
High stations, tumult, but not bliss, create;
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
And wisely tell what hour o' th' day
The clock does strike by Algebra.
While words of learned length and thundering sound
Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around.
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,
That one small head should carry all it knew.
Walkers at leisure learning's flowers may spoil
Nor watch the wasting of the midnight oil.
I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.
The timely dew of sleep
Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines
Our eyelids.
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,
Morn of toil, nor night of waking.
Sleep shall neither night nor day
Hang upon his pent-house lid.