Quotes about Deliberation

Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.

If there is one message to glean from this wisdom, it is that a meaningful life is not a matter of speed or efficiency. It's much more a matter of what you do and why you do it, than how fast you get it done.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Jon, larger and more gentle, moved slowly, spoke seldom and seemed to have burdened with the responsibility of pondering the world's imponderables.

deliberation we may hesitate; but a deliberated act must be performed swiftly

Sometimes you have to marinate instead of making a quick decision. I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Remember, that to change thy mind upon occasion, and to follow him that is able to rectify thee, is equally ingenuous, as to find out at the first, what is right and just, without help. For of thee nothing is required, ti, is beyond the extent of thine own deliberation and jun. merit, and of thine own understanding.

You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. But

every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.