Graduation Quotes

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Brooks Atkinson

You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

John Updike

Education is the process by which the individual relates himself to the universe, give himself citizenship in the changing world, share's the race's mind and enfranchises his own soul.

John H. Finley

Look at education as a continuous life long journey.

Catherine Pulsifer

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way.

Dr. Seuss

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Lillian Smith

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

Doug Larson

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Henry Ward Beecher

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Dr. Seuss

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

Robert Purvis

Your families are extremely proud of you. You can't imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.

Gary Bolding

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Orrin Hatch

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate

Doug Larson

Universities are full of Knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in, the seniors take none away, and the knowledge there accumulates

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

Bishop Creighton

School's out, Memories past, Don't ever doubt, Our friendship will last.

Unknown

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Sydney J. Harris

When you leave here, don't forget why you came.

Adlai Stevenson

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future.

Plato

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

Robertson Davies

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

Unknown

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