Deliberate
Weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor.
Formed with deliberation; well-advised; carefully considered; not sudden or rash; as, a deliberate opinion; a deliberate measure or result.
Not hasty or sudden; slow.
To weigh in the mind; to consider the reasons for and against; to consider maturely; to reflect upon; to ponder; as, to deliberate a question.
To take counsel with one's self; to weigh the arguments for and against a proposed course of action; to reflect; to consider; to hesitate in deciding; -- sometimes with on, upon, about, concerning.
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Deliberate Quotations
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
Abraham Lincoln
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy
How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
Henry David Thoreau
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Margaret Thatcher
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Jackson
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
Pope John Paul II
Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
Heraclitus
To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
Henry A. Wallace
Deliberate Translations
deliberate in Italian is riflettere, voluto
deliberate in Latin is delibero
deliberate in Norwegian is overlagt
deliberate in Spanish is razonar, adrede, reflexionar, deliberado
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