Such corruption feeds on its own success when it meets no correction.
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.
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.
The most important part of education — to teach the meaning of to know (in the scientific sense).
Retribution—ah, my friend, retribution is the sweetest of all sweet dark dreams.
For, without cruelty, only a limited success is ever possible in opera.
Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.
Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.
Two men who differ as to the ends of life cannot hope to agree about education.
Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.