Quotes About Deliberation

Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.

I'm inclined to vote for Roberts unless something else comes up. It's a close call.

Because of my methodology and my sensibilities to write songs, I'm not very comfortable with the notion to rush in any creative endeavor.

I picked you for this task, Colonel, precisely because you won't do it lightly.

Both personal experience and professional studies of social processes, after all, had led me to think that people rarely accomplish exactly what they consciously plan, and constantly find events unrolling differently from what they anticipated. Why, then, do people's descriptions and explanations of social processes overwhelmingly emphasize conscious deliberation?

Obierika was a man who thought about things.

You want to harbor your resources and try not to make a mistake.

Perhaps," Thrawn said. "Still, it would be wise to think on it, General.

Genuis hesitates

Weigh every word before you speak it.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

Despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

I believe in practicing prudence, at least once every two or three years.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

Act quickly, think slowly.