Deliberate

Famous quotes containing the word deliberate:

    ‘Beware
    The soft-voiced owl, the ferret’s smile,
    The hawk’s deliberate stoop in air,
    Cold eyes, and bodies hooped in steel,
    Forever bent upon the kill.’
    Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932)

    We often disguise our reflexes as deliberate actions.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    Several moralists have recommended it as an excellent method of becoming acquainted with our own hearts, and knowing our progress in virtue, to recollect our dreams in a morning, and examine them with the same rigour that we would our most serious and most deliberate actions.
    David Hume (1711–1776)