Graduation Quotes

Education is the best provision for old age.  ~ Aristotle


If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!  ~ Andy McIntyre


The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.  ~ Sydney J. Harris


He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.  ~ Thucydides


Graduation day is tough for adults.  They go to the ceremony as parents.  They come home as contemporaries.  After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.  ~ Erma Bombeck


The important thing is not to stop questioning.  ~ Albert Einstein


It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.  ~ Aristotle


Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.  ~ Henry David Thoreau


You are educated.  Your certification is in your degree.  You may think of it as the ticket to the good life.  Let me ask you to think of an alternative.  Think of it as your ticket to change the world.  ~ Tom Brokaw


The fireworks begin today.  Each diploma is a lighted match.  Each one of you is a fuse.  ~ Edward Koch


Hitch your wagon to a star.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.  ~ Theodore Roosevelt


The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.  ~ Edward Abbey


There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises."  Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.  ~ Orrin Hatch


Graduation is only a concept.  In real life every day you graduate.  Graduation is a process that goes on  until the last day of your life.  If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference.  ~ Arie Pencovici


Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.  ~ Nelson Mandela


The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.  ~ Maya Angelou


The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.  ~ Aristotle


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


At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards.  My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.  ~ Paul Freund


The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.  ~ Newton D. Baker


The tassel's worth the hassle!  ~ Unknown


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 Orben