Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous. — Confucius 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
We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all. — Publilius Syrus 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
Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation. — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements. — Bahá'u'lláh 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
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
Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and… — Peter Wessel Zapffe 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
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
The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of… — William James 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
... 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
The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as… — William Gaddis 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
The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they… — Herodotus 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
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
There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination. — Paul Allen Walker Copy Share Image
Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image