Quotes from David Starr Jordan

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

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

Long ago, in the infancy of civilization, man learned that there were drugs in Nature, cell products of the growth or transformation of "our brother organisms, the plants," by whose agency pain was turned to pleasure. By the aid of these outside influences he could clear "today of past regrets and future fears," and strike out from the sad "calendar unborn tomorrow and dead yesterday.

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

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

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.

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

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

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

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

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.