Consistent Quotes

All concord’s born of contraries.

A foolish consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, as Emerson said, but serious inconsistency is the downfall of many theories.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind.

It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the “complexity” of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.