Quotes About Consideration

Who can resist being around a person who suspends his thoughts in order to value yours?

Saint Thomas Aquinas remarks that "love is born of an earnest consideration of the object loved." And: "Love follows knowledge."3 Love is an emotional response aroused in the will by visions of the good. Contrary to what is often said, love is never blind, though it may not see rightly. It cannot exist without some vision of the beloved.

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attended them

folly of beginning a work before we count the cost and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

I was very pensive upon the subject of my present condition, when reason as it were expostulated with me t'other way, thus: Well, you are in a desolate condition, 'tis true, but pray remember, Where are the ten? Why were not they sav'd and you lost? Why were you singled out? Is it better to be here or there, and then I pointed to the sea? All evils are to be consider'd with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

All Evills are to be consider'd with the Good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

Is it just for me, or for others? For the benefit of the few, or the many? For now, or for the future?

Love is putting someone else's needs before yours.

There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.

I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.

Be a good neighbor, and leave me alone.

Ask yourself:...Will this disturb the sleep of a woman near to giving birth...

The earth, which we all have in common, is our deepest bond, and our behavior toward it cannot help but be an earnest of our consideration for each other and for our descendants. To corrupt or destroy the natural environment is an act of violence not only against the earth but also against those who are dependent on it, including ourselves. To waste the soil is to cause hunger, as direct an aggression as an armed attack; it is an act of violence against the future of the human race.

Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.

If it's any comfort to you, collar me again. You don't in the least know how to do it; but I'll overlook your awkwardness in consideration of your feelings.

Now I saw, though too late, the Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost, and before we judge rightly of our own Strength to go through with it. Only

It is a habit of mine always to give up to Miss Halcombe. I find, by experience, that it saves noise.

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

People. They're really innately, inherently gentle and compassionate and kind. That's what wrings, wrenches...something. Your entrails, maybe. The member of the mob who holds up the whole ceremony for seconds or even minutes while he dislodges a family of bugs or lizards from the log he is about to put on the fire.

Oh, of course she'd thought about it; every girl does from time to time.

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

A 1993 study by Nutt, which analyzed 168 decisions in this laborious way, came to a stunning conclusion: Of the teams he studied, only 29% considered more than one alternative.† By way of comparison, 30% of the teens in the Fischhoff study considered more than one alternative.

The pros-and-cons approach is familiar. It is commonsensical. And it is also profoundly flawed.

It's rude to make people feel they're being excluded from a conversation.