Deliberation Quotes

85 Deliberation quotes by 74 unique authors

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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in… — Michel de Montaigne
Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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… — Don Tapscott
The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never… — Samuel Johnson
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… — Edmund Burke
You and I shouldn't claim we love Oregon more than anyone else, but that we love Oregon as much as anyone. Our thoughts today, and… — Tom McCall
Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions. — Sam Rayburn
In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to enter into a… — William Hazlitt
To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice… — Henry Fielding
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe… — Malcolm Gladwell
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy. — Jesse Jackson
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. — Samuel Johnson
It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision. — Barbara Jordan
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular… — Marcel Proust
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. — Mary Wollstonecraft
Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action… — Evgeny Morozov
We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation. — Matthew Tobin Anderson
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… — David Hume
From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.… — Ray Bradbury
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… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation… — Walt Whitman
He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but won't, possibly can't,… — Michael Cunningham
... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts… — Judith Butler

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