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.
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil; the future, the virgin's.
He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.