Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences. — F. David Mathews Copy Share Image
Achievement is the entirety of little deliberations, rehashed all the live long day. — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“better than rash decisions was cool, indeed the very coolest, deliberation.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
“However few people can successfully demonstrate a principle in common ethics when their deliberation is festered with emotionalism.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
A new moon teaches gradualness and deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly. Patience with small details makes perfect a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in… — Fernando Henrique Cardoso Copy Share Image
Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to… — Ben Nelson Copy Share Image
So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a… — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No deliberation made by a single person will be successful; the nature of the work which a sovereign has to do is… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular citizens should… — Kevin Mattson Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important. This… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“[P]eople only make decisions based on what they know. You can have everyone in the country vote freely and democratically and still… — Tracy Hickman Copy Share Image
“Then, too, the senate has a rule that no point is discussed on the same day it is brought up, but rather… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Though methods play an important role in the early stage, the techniques should not be too mechanical, complex or restrictive. If we… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that few people walk their ways with deliberation, stopping every so often to delight in the seasons and… — Faith Baldwin Copy Share Image
“It might feel, at least to some of us, that our opinions about issues such as abortion and the death penalty are… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image