David Starr Jordan Quotes

• Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

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  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  David Starr Jordan (1929). “The Trend of the American University”, p.71, Stanford University Press

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• There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.

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  Animal, Men, Rights

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• There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

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  Inspirational, Life, Real

  "The Voice of the Scholar". Book by David Starr Jordan, 1903.

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• Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.

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  Motivational, Knowing, Skills

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• Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit.

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  Spirit, Spirituality

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• The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.

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  Strength, Men, Stronger

  DAVID STARR JORDAN (1896). “THE CARE AND CULTURE OF MEN”

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• Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for

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  Life, Long, Charity

  David Starr Jordan (1896). “The Care and Culture of Men: A Series of Addresses on the Higher Education”

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• All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.

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  War, Loss, Science

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• Whatever is not nailed down is mine." This is the motto of the exploiter. "Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down." This is the second maxim in a country where people are rich, caring little in their present prosperity what shall become of the future.

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  Country, Caring, People

  David Starr Jordan (1910). “The Call of the Nation: A Plea for Taking Politics Out of Politics”

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• To say no at the right time, and then stand by it, is the first element of success. He is the wise man who, for all his life, can keep mind and soul and body clean.

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  Wise, Men, Soul And Body

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• Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought.

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  Rome, America, Long

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• When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

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  Funny, Dog, Religious

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• The physiological law of Transfer of Energy is the basis of human success and happiness. There is no action without expenditure of energy, and if energy be not expended the power to generate it is lost. This law shows itself in a thousand ways in the life of man. The arm which is not used becomes palsied. The wealth which comes by chance weakens and destroys. The good which is unused turns to evil. The charity which asks no effort cannot relieve the misery she creates.

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  Life, Men, Law

  David Starr Jordan (1983). “The strength of being clean: the physiological laws governing the pursuit of happiness ; The philosophy of hope : understanding the process by which hope displaces despair : an owners manual to the human soul”

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• There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

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  Habit, Pleasure, Vicious

  David Starr Jordan (1983). “The strength of being clean: the physiological laws governing the pursuit of happiness ; The philosophy of hope : understanding the process by which hope displaces despair : an owners manual to the human soul”

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• "I am not much of a mathematician," said the cigarette, "but I can add to a man's nervous troubles, I can subtract from his physical energy, I can multiply his aches and pains, I can divide his mental powers, I take interest from his work, and discount his chances for success."

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  Pain, Work, Men

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• No one can afford to look downward for his enjoyments.

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  Looks, Enjoyment

  David Starr Jordan (1903). “The Call of the Twentieth Century: An Address to Young Men”

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• No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.

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  Miserable

  David Starr Jordan (1983). “The strength of being clean: the physiological laws governing the pursuit of happiness ; The philosophy of hope : understanding the process by which hope displaces despair : an owners manual to the human soul”

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• Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward. I would not change one word I have spoken against war but that is no longer the issue. We must now stand together.

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  Country, War, Science

  David Starr Jordan (1922). “The days of a man: being memories of a naturalist, teacher, and minor prophet of democracy”

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