“Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.”
Solón (-638–-558 BC) Athenian legislator
Diogenes Laërtius (trans. C. D. Yonge) The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (1853), "Solon", sect. 12, p. 29.
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George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
1790s, Farewell Address (1796)
Context: Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied, that, if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
8 May 1750
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.”
Herodotus (-484–-425 BC) ancient Greek historian, often considered as the first historian
Actually a quotation from a letter of Lord Chesterfield dated May 8, 1750.
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Albert L. Lehninger (1917–1986) American biochemist
Principles of Biochemistry, Ch. 1 : The Foundations of Biochemistry
Derek Parfit book Reasons and Persons
Source: Derek Parfit, ‘Innumerate Ethics’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 7, no. 4 (Summer, 1978), p. 301
“When the weight of the paper equals the weight of the airplane, only then you can go flying.”
Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892–1981) American businessman
