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David Starr Jordan
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“Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.”
David Starr Jordan (1851–1931) first seen 1898 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ideals of Stanford", by President David Starr Jordan, in The Land of Sunshine: A Southern California Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 1. (Los Angeles, June 1898), p. 11
“There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.”
David Starr Jordan (1851–1931) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Voice of the Scholar (San Francisco, 1903), Ch. IX: "The University and the Common Man", p. 190
“The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.”
David Starr Jordan (1851–1931) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in B. C. Forbes, Keys to Success: Personal Efficiency (1918), p. 189
“Far away in the thirties and forties she (the girl you want to be) is waiting her turn. Her body, brain, her soul are in your girlish hands. She cannot help herself. What will you leave for her? … Will you throw away her inheritance?”
David Starr Jordan (1851–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in M. Leonard, The Chaperon and Housemother, Builders of Youth (1947), p. 51