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.
Democracy without education is hypocrisy without limitation.
The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.
Human nature is intractable stuff, hard jagged stuff, the kind of stuff that dreams are wrecked on.
For maturity is marked by the preference to be defeated rather than have a subjective success.
Only those generals who gain successes, can set up dictators.
Are you still convinced that inflation is incompatible with economic success?