If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
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.
Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for.
The dream too thinks twice,
gets filtered to go soft
to be seated on children's eyes.
If you ever become fatigued from chasing your dreams, you are always welcome in my world of reality.
Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
'Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.