Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?
Alfred de Vigny

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
Lord Chesterfield

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
Herodotus

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
Albert Claude

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.
Dinah Maria Mulock

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Plutarch

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.
Jonathan Dimbleby

The 21st Amendment gives the states the right to decide what the drinking ages should be and other aspects relative to alcoholic beverages, and I support that. As a United States senator, I want to weigh in - this is not my agenda.
Pete Coors

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
Anne Sophie Swetchine

The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.
Donella Meadows

There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.
Delia Smith

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.
Dave Barry

There is a lot of things to weigh up when a transfer happens, and money is a big factor.
Richard Gough

These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
Ahmed Ben Bella

Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.
Thomas Starr King

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
William Shakespeare

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
John Lyly

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
William O. Douglas