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David Starr Jordan Quotes

«Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.»
«Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for»
«Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it»
Author: David Starr Jordan | About: Wisdom
«When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!»
Author: David Starr Jordan | About: Patriotism | Keywords: barks
«Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.»
Author: David Starr Jordan | About: Wisdom
«There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.»
«The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.»
«No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life»
Author: David Starr Jordan | Keywords: cheapen, cheapens