Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Consistent Quotes
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.
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency- and a virtue; and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency- and a vice.
Predicament, n. The wage of consistency.
We are all inconsistent. We are offended and resent it when people do not respect us; and yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
No thinker has ever said that a change of mind was inconsistency.
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard […]
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
