Graduation Quotes
Graduation quotes and links to graduation quotes. Including graduation yearbook quotes and funny quotes about college life.
"You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense." - Molière
"I never go to a college reunion that I don't come away feeling sorry for all those paunchy, balding jocks trying to hang onto youth. I feel sorry for the men, too." - Erma Bombeck
"The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No assumption is too unreal, no end is too unpractical for him." - Frederic Harrison
- "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
"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
"Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates." - A. Lawrence Lowell
"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
"Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would succeed and who would fall. Life would be intolerable — no hope, no challenge" — R.M. Dawes
"Demography is not destiny. The amount of melanin in a student's skin, [or] the amount of money in the family bank account, are not the inexorable determinants of academic success... all children can attain the substantive knowledge and master the skills expected of graduates." - Justice Leland DeGrasse, Supreme Court of the State of New York.
"Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant." - Epictetus
"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 great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength." - Ralph Waldo Emerson from Education in Lectures and Biographical sketches (1883)
"You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library." - Will Hunting (played by Matt Damon), Good Will Hunting
Short graduation quotes
"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable." - Wendy Wasserstein
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison
"Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!" - Louisa May Alcott
"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never
graduate," - Doug Larson
