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.
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Next these, learn’d Jonson, in this list I bring,
Who had drunk deep of the Pierian spring.
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Could we but know
The land that ends our dark, uncertain travel.
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.