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.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
If there were dreams to sell,
Merry and sad to tell,
And the crier rung his bell,
What would you buy?
Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate,
For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true.
Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes;
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present"
Learning by study must be won;
'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.