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
Don’t ever dare to take your college as a matter of course–because, like democracy and freedom, many people you’ll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
– Alice Drue Miller
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
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
– Henry David Thoreau
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
– Richard Halliburton
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
– Wayne Dyer
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
– Henry David Thoreau
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Education is simply the soul of society as it passes from one generation to the next.
– Anonymous
He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
– Anonymous
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.
– Anonymous
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.
– Anonymous
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: and a people who mean to be their own governours, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
– Anonymous
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
– Anonymous
You can lead a boy to college, but you can’t make him think.
– Anonymous
You know that point at your graduation ceremony where everyone throws their caps ? Isn’t it great that we all celebrate how smart we are by throwing sharp pointy objects in the air.
– Anonymous
Education is the best provision for old age.
– Anonymous
College professor–someone who talks in other people’s sleep.
– Anonymous