Inconsistency Quotes

• We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

  Mark Twain

  People, Religion, Sacred Things

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.544, eKitap Projesi

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• The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.

  James C. Collins

  Signatures, Mediocrity

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• There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

  Jonathan Swift

  World, This World, Constant

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Leadership, Consistency

  Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.1192, Library of America

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• It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, World, Gaps

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• Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

  Joseph Addison

  Real, Eye, Men

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• As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.

  John Cage

  Consistency

  Interview with John Corbett, 1989.

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• There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

  Jane Austen

  Character, Thinking, People

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.119

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• Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Success, Character, Effort

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• Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Love, Real, Relapse

  Ann Radcliffe (1998). “The Mysteries of Udolpho”, p.317, OUP Oxford

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• Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, Children, Parenting

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• Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Character, Men, Wisest Man

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.77, Oxford University Press

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

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Weakness, Literature

  Joseph Addison (1828). “A second selection from the papers of Addison in the Spectator and Guardian, for the use of young persons, by E. Berens”, p.40

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• I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection. Yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest, and thus it is, that i always feel revived, as by a new convinction, when your words tell me I am dear to you; and wanting these, I relapse into doubt and often into despondency.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Real, Doubt, Affection

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.716, Delphi Classics

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• Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Silly, Science, Political

  Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

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• Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

  Jane Austen

  Laughing, Nonsense, Whim

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.49

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• Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is
  unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Men, Vegetarianism, Giving

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• One cannot live without inconsistency.

  Carl Jung

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• With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Adventure, Consistency

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.25, Coyote Canyon Press

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• No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Mind, Sensible

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• Every joke can't be dazzling. And if you think you spotted an inconsistency, you did!

  George Meyer

  Thinking, Jokes, Dazzling

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, People, Pride And Prejudice Book

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.119

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• Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.

  Jacques Maritain

  Religious, Commitment, Atheism

  Jacques Maritain (1966). “A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings”

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• More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Spiritual, Men, White Man

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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