Graduation Quotes · Page 10

Inspire the next chapter with meaningful graduation quotes that honor achievement and point toward possibility. Perfect for speeches, cards, and commemorating a new beginning.

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“It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently, and an overloaded curriculum is useless.”

— André Maurois

“The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.”

— André Maurois

“No country in the world has more reverence than France for a good literary education.”

— André Maurois

“To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.”

— John Buchan

“He who shall teach the child to doubt / The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.”

— William Blake

“To teach is to learn twice over.”

— Joseph Joubert

“The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading the old ones.”

— Joseph Joubert

“I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pester’d the world ever convince me to the contrary.”

— Laurence Sterne

“Writing a book for the Follies seems to be about as profitable an occupation as furnishing flannel petticoats for the showgirls.”

— Dorothy Parker

“Can all that optics teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow?”

— Thomas Campbell

“When evening comes, I return home and enter my study; on the threshold I take off my workday clothes, covered with mud and dirt, and put on the garments of court and palace.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure…”

— Italo Calvino

“What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.”

— Italo Calvino

“Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves fruitful to me.”

— Italo Calvino

“The stimulus of reading is indispensable to me, and of meaty reading, even if, of every book, I manage to read no more than a few pages.”

— Italo Calvino

“Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barricade of Books You Haven't Read, which were frowning at you from the tables and shelves…”

— Italo Calvino

“What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?”

— Louis Sullivan

“Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a…”

— Thomas Szasz

“What I've tried to show in the Potter books, and what I feel strongly myself, is that we should mistrust ourselves most when we are certain.”

— J.K. Rowling

“There is no book on this planet that I would burn, including books that I do think are damaging. Burning, to me, is the last resort of people who cannot argue.”

— J.K. Rowling

“The scary news is, you're on your own now. The cool news is, you're on your own now.”

— Taylor Swift

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