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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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