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.
This mountain, I thought, was like education: The higher you climbed, the farther you could see.
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
You don't know things anywhere! You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.