Wisdom is knowing what to do
by Joey Garr on 01/09/09 at 6:30 pm
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“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”
-David Starr Jordan-
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Biography…
David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was a leading eugenicist, ichthyologist (the study of fish), educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University. Jordan was born in Gainesville, New York, and studied at Cornell University, Butler University, and the Indiana University School of Medicine. In 1885, he was named President of Indiana University, becoming the nation’s youngest university president at age 34. In 1891, he became president of Stanford, serving there as president until 1913 and chancellor until his retirement in 1916.
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