Even if you know you are right, you may be wrong.
speech graduation humility
Benno Schmidt
University of Missouri-Kansas City Commencement 2012, 2012
Fear or faith, which will be our master? Fear is whispered in our ears and shouted in our faces. Faith must be fostered by the man or woman you see every day in the mirror.
speech graduation faith
Tom Hanks
Yale University Class Day 2011, 2011
The right to access language and language acquisition is a necessary prerequisite for exercising the right to human dignity, freedom of expression, and all other human rights.
speech graduation justice
Gary Malkowski
Gallaudet University Commencement 2011, 2011
A connection should probably make you feel a little uneasy. Because if you make a connection it means you're beginning to take responsibility for that person's life.
speech graduation empathy
Cynthia Enloe
Connecticut College Commencement 2011, 2011
We have stone-age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. These three stanchions of current civilization explain why we are constantly in trouble.
speech graduation science
Edward O. Wilson
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Commencement 2011, 2011
All of mankind's problems are due to the fact that we do not know what we are and cannot agree on what we wish to become.
speech graduation self discovery
Edward O. Wilson
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Commencement 2011, 2011
The purpose in life is not to find yourself. It's to lose yourself.
speech graduation purpose
David Brooks
Rice University Commencement 2011, 2011
Life is harsh and sometimes even ruthless. Only the tough survive. That is one strand of thinking. The other says: humankind is a species of designers, problem solvers, and seekers. We don't have to accept our follies and our missteps.
speech graduation wisdom
Jeffrey Sachs
Connecticut College Commencement 2010, 2010
We're all strapped in, seated together on a gigantic ball whirling around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour, nested in a galaxy hurtling through the depths of space and time at 1.3 million miles per hour.
speech graduation wonder
Kirk Schneider
San Francisco State University Commencement 2010, 2010
Every single now is the rest of your life.
speech graduation carpe diem
Sarah Heidt
Kenyon College Baccalaureate, 2010, 2010
The world you see outside of you is a reflection of what you have inside of you.
speech graduation self discovery
Cory Booker
Pitzer College Commencement 2010, 2010
Nations of technically trained people who don't know how to criticize authority, useful profit-makers with obtuse imaginations.
speech graduation education
Martha Nussbaum
Connecticut College Commencement 2009, 2009