Quotes About Deliberation

take it one step at a time; approach the matter dispassionately; avoid a rush to judgement; confide in nobody until there is hard evidence.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things. I just want to get at it slowly, but carefully and thoroughly, with the same attitude I remember was present just before I found that sheared pin. It was that attitude that found it, nothing else.

The contrast between rapid, automatic moral intuitionism and conscious, deliberative moral reasoning plays out in another crucial realm and is the subject of Greene's superb 2014 book Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them.

Our discussions ran late into the night

Pussyfooting is a vice I have been concerned to avoid.

Claro que lo sabía. Y claro que lo iba a considerar cuando tomara su decisión, la definitiva, la que determinaría todo su futuro

I have done so many things in my life, she said to the mirror. Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.

We cut down (after much deliberation) two big prickly bushes that were growing together like eyebrows at either side of our small path.

Be guided by reason. Cold Calculated unimpassioned reason

Think twice before you act.

I do not 'gallivant,' Truzenzuzex commented primly. I plan in haste.

If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.

Everything seemed to happen so slowly. Nina watched the spiral of dust tremble its way from the ceiling, wavering in the light, a tiny cloud of white, nothing more. But it was, she knew, enough. She looked at Surinder

But she is tired all the time now. She can feel how slowly she is walking, as if the air itself is something to be reckoned with.

She thinks before she acts. Or more properly, she thinks instead of acts. A character flaw, not a virtue.

Let us go back a little farther and read on until we come to these words, for we must not seek to learn the whole meaning of the section, from the concluding parts of it, or, if I may so say, from the tail of the chapter.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

Without information, deliberation, and the power to make one's decision effective, democratically expressed opinion is hardly more than the applause at a sports event.

If any important decision is to be made, they discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house . . . submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.

Andrew Roberts

They ask what I often refer to as the best question ever: "In light of my past experience, and my future hopes and dreams, what's the wise thing to do?

When in doubt, take more time.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.