Deliberation Quotes
Deliberation Quote of the day
Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.
Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.
Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen
Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.
Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.
The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.
Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.
The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.
Public deliberation is a means by which citizens make tough choices about basic purposes and directions for their communities and their country.
Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.
It's not at all a bad idea for scientific questions to be chosen because a democratic deliberation would identify them as important for people's lives.
In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.
He is greatly honored by the time we take to weigh with mature deliberation matters having to do with his service, as are all those with which we deal.
There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination.
We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.
Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.
With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike.
Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.
Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the process of deciding what to do.
Destroying oneself, he thought ruefully, should always be done at a deliberate pace.
Stop over-loading yourself with numberless tasks. Give time to yourself for rest and positive deliberations. You can’t think better and plan better when you are under stress!
I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing.