Best Deliberation Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate

“Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation.”

Feels Law Energy Principles Humility Duty Weakness Motive Strongest Balanced Symptoms Prudence Reserved Supplements Deliberation

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in such a combat he is the bravest soldier that lays about him without fear or wit. Wit pleads, fear disheartens; he that would kill Hydra had better strike off one neck than five heads: fell the tree, and the branches are soon cut off.”

Five Cutting Tree Lays Soldier Strikes Wit Branches Necks Courageous Resolution Customs Combat Deliberation Hydra

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.”

Body Loses Lays Passing Passings Leisure Calmness Retribution Deliberation Provocation

Book:Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: Part III. ... By Jeremy Collier, M.A.

Source: Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: Part III. ... By Jeremy Collier, M.A.

“The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the morning, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberations, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.”

Ifs Firsts Made Sometimes Matter Night House Decision Practice Morning Cases Influence Masters Weight Wine Affair Drunk Sober Deliberate Approved Deliberation General Practice

Author:Herodotus

“Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject; and even if excessive scepticism could be maintained it would not be more destructive to all just reasoning and inquiry. When men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.”

Ifs Men Passion Given Subjects Secure Suspense Reasoning Destructive Arrogant Absurdity Mistaken Inquiry Being Positive Reins Deliberation Dogmatism Scepticism

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book

“The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.”

Ends Wisdom Deliberation Consultation

Author:Demosthenes

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

Dies Our Lives Procrastination Deliberation

Author:Pasquier Quesnel

“Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.”

Take Time Spoil Haste Deliberation

Author:Statius

“To the extent to which the pull that moves me really is irresistible, like an invincibly strong addiction, the normal procedures of evaluation, deliberation, choice, decision, etc. that constitute the substance of our political life are not operating. The same is true of overwhelming aversion. The person being tortured who simply wants it to stop, period, is also not a good model for an agent acting politically.”

Source: Philosophy and Real Politics

“As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which were debated in the councils of antiquity, will frequently present themselves as the subject of modern deliberation.”

Long War Passion Interest Justice History Modern Subjects Mankind Policy Council Antiquity Roman Empire Deliberation

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul.”

May Two Soul Half Rational Faculty Calculations Deliberation

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity,[ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own.”

“Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.”

Wells Done Action Moral Sacrifice Worst Involved Morality Hallmark Deliberation Moral Action

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is the ground of the observation, that the first thought is often the best. In these cases, doubt and deliberation is itself dishonesty; as it was in Balaam upon the second message.”

Firsts Views Common Cases Doubt Honest Duty Messages Ordinary Observation Dishonesty Deliberation Balaam

Book:The Whole Works of Joseph Butler ...

Source: The Whole Works of Joseph Butler ...

“One feature which will probably most impress the mathematician accustomed to the rapidity and directness secured by the generality of modern methods is the deliberation with which Archimedes approaches the solution of any one of his main problems.”

Problem Modern Approach Solutions Method Features Mathematician Impress Accustomed Secured Deliberation Generalities

Book:The Works of Archimedes

Source: The Works of Archimedes

“Meaning coming from feeling, feeling coming from within, you absorb a massive amount of information, it goes through your whole body, a little bit of it floats up to your head where there is deliberation. You are conditioned by the way your whole body is responding to what is going on.”

Way Littles Whole Feelings Body Bits Information Amount Little Bit Massive Within You Floats Responding Deliberation

Author:Bill Henson

“The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.”

People Ifs World Humans Understanding Effort Prejudice Unions Various Deliberate Exertion Deliberation Partiality Constitutional Convention

Book:The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila

“A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol”

Mind Self Body Action Mother Understanding Principles Sweet Pure Denial God Love Sincere Sober Sweet Love Carriages Chaste Self-denial Deliberation Understanding Love

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.”

Use Easy Water Decision Fire Careful Opening Urban Drought Deliberation

Author:Ben Nelson

“The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen”

World Effort Constitution Deliberation

Book:A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America: Against the Attack of M. Turgot in His Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-second Day of March, 1778

Source: A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America: Against the Attack of M. Turgot in His Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-second Day of March, 1778

“The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods on a November afternoon. Everything they do is leisurely. They pick the grapes with a curious deliberation, comb their feathers, converse in high windy whistles. Now and then one will fly out and back in a sort of dancing flight full of whimsical flutters and turns. They are like farmers loafing in their own fields on Sunday. Though they have no Sundays, their days are full of sabbaths.”