"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."
"It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree."
John F. Kennedy on Graduation"God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars."
Elbert Hubbard on Graduation"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 on Graduation"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."
Erma Bombeck on Graduation"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 on Graduation"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."
"Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same."
"All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords."
"Business today consists in persuading crowds."
"The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all."