Quote#Wisdom
Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it
Quote byDavid Starr Jordan · 1851–1931
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "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.
English (original)
Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.
— David Starr Jordan
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The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
The scene was changed. It was a bark that slowly held its way, And o'er its lee the coast of France in the light of evening lay; And on its deck a lady sat, who gazed with tearful eyes Upon the fast receding hills that dim and distant rise.
What great Effects from slender Causes flow!
So All is diff’rent, and yet All is One.
But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.