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.
Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.
People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don’t dream at all.
Here we are all by day; by night we're hurl'd
By dreams, each one into a sev'ral world.
A baby was sleeping,
Its mother was weeping,
For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.
Isn't the future necessarily going to be dominated by machine life?