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Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment despite collective disapproval. -- W. Arthur Lewis
To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter. -- Fredrik Bajer
Moderation in all things -- Aristotle.
Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered. -- Marvin Bower
The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision. -- Niklaus Wirth
Uncertainty cripples any serious and firm resolve and results in opinions swaying from one side to the other, leaving any decision that is made weak and half done, even when it comes to the most essential measures of self-preservation. -- Adolf Hitler
For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate. -- Barack Obama
The art of decision making includes the art of questioning. -- Pearl Zhu
Decisions by committee are almost always long in coming and dead wrong. A world-changing vision comes from one person, not five or or twenty or a hundred, and more often than not, the best of plans are laid to waste by the many. -- Patrick Carman
If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about. -- Alfred P. Sloan
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward. -- Herodotus
We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong. -- Thomas Jefferson
Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference. -- Noreena Hertz
He used deliberation as others use quickness of repartee. -- Agatha Christie
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions. -- Aldous Huxley
What is decision anyway? -- Martin Heidegger
communicating fully and openly, by not withholding or misleading. There is no doubt that our decision-making is better if we are able to draw on the collective knowledge and unvarnished opinions of the group. But as valuable as the information is -- Ed Catmull
We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve. -- Albert Camus
the best way to crush the discussion, is with a decision. -- Jon Acuff
Judgment and decision making are often considered together. -- Pearl Zhu
The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions. -- Fredrik Bajer
There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people -- Ray Dalio
There was a thoughtful pause in the conversation as the assembled Brethren mentally divided the universe into the deserving and the undeserving, and put themselves on the appropriate side. -- Terry Pratchett
Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action -- Sylvia Plath
An opinion is not a momentary thing but a process of thinking, shaped by the continuous acquisition of knowledge and the activity of questioning, discussion, and debate. -- Neil Postman
Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which were debated in the councils of antiquity, will frequently present themselves as the subject of modern deliberation. -- Edward Gibbon
When a man's life is under debate,
The judge can ne'er too long deliberate. -- John Dryden
I do not apologize for these terms or, more generally, for discussing judicial thinking in a vocabulary alien to most judges and lawyers. Judicial behavior cannot be understood in the vocabulary that judges themselves use, sometimes mischievously. (11) -- Richard A. Posner
You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question. -- Bill Gates
Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer. -- George P. Shultz
True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty. -- Eric Liu
In the course of the century, so many individual decisions are made that no single one of them is ever critical. Each decision is lost in the torrent of judgments that make up a century. -- George Friedman
Gently to hear, kindly to judge. -- William Shakespeare
Even the greatest idea can become meaningless in the rush to judgement. To gauge an idea as feasible we must cut our ties to the status quo and find the balance between constructive criticism and judgment. Within that balance we will uncover crucial input for making our ideas a reality. -- Shigeo Shingo
The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product. -- Madeleine Albright
Moderation is not a compromise; moderation is a passion; the passion of great judges. -- G.k. Chesterton
considerable discussion, the Draft Committee's submission received -- R.c. Sproul
Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer. -- Norman Mailer
A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee. -- Fletcher Knebel
People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not create. -- William H. Whyte
No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at. -- Arthur Helps
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result? -- C.s. Lewis
Grove continued to act on the conviction that good strategic thinking requires different points of view and clarifying those different points of view requires intensive, ongoing debate involving the executive team and domain experts inside and outside the company. -- David B. Yoffie
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands. -- Edmund Burke
The mock rationality of the debate conceals the arbitrariness of the will and power at work in its resolution. It -- Alasdair Macintyre
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute. -- Aristotle.
When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations? -- Sengcan
We should use our judgment before coming to a decision. -- Aesop
Critical thinking is essential to make sense of our world, especially with advertisers and politicians all telling us loudly that they know best. We need to be able to look at the evidence and work out whether we agree with them. -- Helen Czerski
Indecision is a decision. -- Kim Askew
My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror. -- Warren Buffett
We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced - and sometimes strongly - by our personal bias; and we give our best thoughts to those ideas which we have to defend. -- August Krogh
Among the enduring truths I keep bumping into when there is the luxury of time to get to know people or institutions, is that their decisions are often made for what are not, strictly speaking, reasons of logic. -- Ken Auletta
Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design. -- Don Yaeger
Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers -- Euripides
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? -- Alexander Pope
To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight. -- Denise Moreland
When a group of intelligent people come together to talk about issues that matter, it is both natural and productive for disagreement to occur. Resolving those issues is what makes a meeting productive, engaging, even fun. -- Patrick Lencioni
We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking? -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
In all controversies, it is better to wait the decisions of time, which are slow and sure, than to take those of synods, which are often hasty and injudicious -- Joseph Priestley
When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows. -- Carolyn Hax
The ability to analyze others' arguments can also serve as a yardstick for when to withdraw from discussions that will most likely be futile. -- Ali Almossawi
We assign a moment to decision, to dignify the process as a timely result of rational and conscious thought. But decisions are made of kneaded feelings; they are more often a lump than a sum. -- Thomas Harris
We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all. -- Publilius Syrus
Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us ... -- Les Brown
What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury? -- Henry Brougham, 1St Baron Brougham And Vaux
Opinions are preferences amid options. Convictions are woven into one's conscience. -- Ravi Zacharias
I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense. -- Peter Blair Henry
Judging is giving too much value on the surface and missing the value beneath -- Dee Dee Artner
You have a passionate, unfiltered, messy, provocative discussion that ends when the leader of the team decides all the information has been aired. At that point, if no one has made a compelling enough argument for making a decision, the leader breaks the tie. -- Patrick Lencioni
All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost. -- Felix Adler
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend. -- Augustine Of Hippo
Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds. -- Khalil Gibran
DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors. -- Ambrose Bierce
Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks. -- Timothy Noah
Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself. -- Tina Fey
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. -- Malcolm Gladwell
By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration - and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them -- Amor Towles
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. -- Ambrose Bierce
How long shall we blunder along without the aid of unpartisan and authoritative scientific assistance in the administration of justice, no one knows; but all fair persons not conventionalized by provincial legal habits of mind ought, I should think, unite to effect some change. -- Learned Hand
A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy. -- George Soros
If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact. -- Thomas Jefferson
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. -- Irving R. Kaufman
The reader is the final arbiter. -- Sam Reaves
Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence. -- Leonard Peikoff
Doubt manifests itself in indecision. -- Richie Norton
Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war. -- Jim Rohn
Moderation: a median with no means, praised by those with no misfortunes, practiced by those with no merits. -- Bauvard
Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others. -- Heinz Hopf
The strength of collective decision making and political responsibility is not only a question of recognizing other people's ability. It is also recognizing one's own limitations. -- Aruna Roy
Critical thinking is a necessary and vital skill".
~R. Alan Woods [2012] -- R. Alan Woods
The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law. -- Winston Churchill
From a mass of conclusions men often come to wavering and doubt; and who knows not how easily the mind slips from doubt to error? -- Pope Leo Xiii
Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine. -- Jonathan Swift
I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions if they are so to be called, will be the same. -- James Madison
Though the man of action, the politician, may sometimes pay no attention to the results of this examination, the man of thought will never cease to inquire into all things accessible to human intelligence. And in the long run thought must determine action. -- Ludwig Von Mises
