Quotes About Deliberation

We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.

He wants to make us think even when we don't feel like thinking.

But much more important than that, only one in "I don't know how many thousands" will take a large notepad, write the problem at the top of the page, and then deliberately turn on his thinking apparatus.

Have cognition before ignition.

Whatever you undertake, act with prudence, and consider the consequences.

But I am letting myself be carried away by reveries which I must now put aside, writes Aronnax. Enough of these phantasies.

The most obvious conclusions are the ones I try to avoid.

After much deliberation, and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.

Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final result of countless large and small deliberations.

It required what a friend calls "putting every word on trial for its life":

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.

go slow to go fast.

As long as we see ourselves as rational beings who can think logically and make carefully reasoned decisions about our daily lives, then education indeed should be about the promotion of reasoned deliberation and the gaining of knowledge that will enhance our ability to reason. But suppose this conception we have of ourselves and our ability to reason logically is simply wrong?

Slow Professors advocate deliberation over acceleration. We need time to think, and so do our students. Time for reflection and open-ended inquiry is not a luxury but is crucial to what we do.

The most time consuming process in the world is probably "thinking".

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Tip 2 Think! About Your Work

careful deliberation. Parties on all sides agreed that whichever way the president came down, the implications were sure to be momentous. In fact, however, even as Obama pondered the question of whether to send ten thousand or twenty thousand or thirty thousand or forty thousand additional reinforcements to Afghanistan, the actual ability to exercise choice had already passed from his hands. In essence, the president found himself in the position of a man shopping

Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.

If this fails to convince, I being out my secret weapon, announcing with portentous deliberation that Barbara. Damn. Walters. Does. Not. Drive. Heard of her? This sort of accusatory conversion of course almost never goes down with native New Yorkers, people who, like Barbara Walters, live in that barbaric third world country that is Manhattan, and thus have yet to hear of newfangled American Advances like automobiles, happiness, and yards.

One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow.

But he is so exceedingly accurate, that, if he only fancies he has said a word too precipitate, or too general, or only half true, he never ceases to qualify, to modify, and extenuate, till at last he appears to have said nothing at all.

He does not always choose the best Who muses long.