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Letter "D" » deliberation
«When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Arrogance,
Men
| Keywords:
arrogant, commonly, deliberation, deliberations, grossest, mistaken, views
«The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.»
Author: Julia Ward Howe
| Keywords:
deliberation, deliberations, pen, stroked, strokes, swiftness, sword, The Strokes, The Sword
«Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| Keywords:
debate, deliberation, deliberations, stir
«Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bread and butter, buttered, deliberation, deliberations
«Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.»
«Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| Keywords:
advocacy, agility, arranges, clouding, colors, deliberation, deliberations, disturbing, inject, injected, injecting, injects, intercourse, meddles, settle, the matter
«Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.»
«The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.»
Author: Samuel Butler
| Keywords:
circumspection, deliberation, deliberations, fortitude, The Times, utmost
«Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
chokes, deliberates, deliberation, deliberations, desperation, literally, nowadays, questionable
«In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
deliberation, deliberations, justify, The Conduct of Life
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