“Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.”
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) 31st President of the United States of America
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.”
"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
Variant: "Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it."
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