decision making Quotes

We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

Excellence, then, is about making choices, finding a middle ground, which is determined by reason, as a wise person would decide.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an... ...

A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award... ...