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

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.

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

Education is the best provision for old age – Aristotle.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest – Benjamin Franklin.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten – B.F. Skinner.

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

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

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

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.

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back – Fred Allen.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later – Harold Geneen.

It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days – Isabel Waxman.

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.

You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you – John Wooden.

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! – Louisa May Alcott.

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

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises”. Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning – Orrin Hatch.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught – Oscar Wilde.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude – Ralph Marston.

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

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder – Ralph W. Sockman.

Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars – Richard Halliburton.

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.

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

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.

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.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep – W.H. Auden.