Inconsistent Quotes

• Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!

  Tom Robbins

  Consistent, Courses

  "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.

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• Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Belief, Opinion, Absurdity

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.7, 谷月社

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• Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Two, People, Groups

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• I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.

  Chris Hemsworth

  House, Personality, Lazy

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• You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

  Zig Ziglar

  Truth, Way, Conflict

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Feb 04, 2014

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• Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

  Harriet Martineau

  Literature, Modesty, Fidelity

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.112

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• Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

  Tryon Edwards

  Law, Facts, Assuming

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.434, Ravenio Books

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• Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Government, Principles

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• It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

  Dave Eggers

  Family, Taste, Our Family

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.

  Bryan White

  Wise, Business, Personality

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• I think it's inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to vote to fund the war. Because every time you vote to fund the war, you're reauthorizing the war all over again.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Thinking, People

  South Carolina Democratic primary debate, www.nbcnews.com. April 26, 2007.

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• A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.

  Walter Bagehot

  Art, Thinking, Government

  Walter Bagehot (1867). “The English Constitution”, p.237

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• Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.

  David Limbaugh

  Ideas, Obamacare, Government

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• Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Play, Giving, Wish

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• I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes, or variations that lead to mastery. I steer clear of definitions. I don’t know what I want. I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty.

  Gerhard Richter

  Style, Want, Mastery

  Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2002). “Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting”, p.42, The Museum of Modern Art

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• Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as a means of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as respects the good of man in general it leads to nothing here or hereafter.

  Thomas Paine

  Atheist, Heart, Mean

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• Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!

  Edward Young

  Nature, Men, Unjust

  Edward Young (1856). “Night Thoughts, etc”, p.16

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• If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Australia, Inconsistency

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.416, Rowman & Littlefield

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• People would like to place a standard on our show that doesn't exist. We're not set up for reporting; we don't have an apparatus for that. We're discussing things that hopefully people might get something out of, but it's wildly inconsistent. Just because we hit on points that resonate, or people think are real complaints - that doesn't make us journalists.

  Jon Stewart

  Real, Thinking, People

  "No News is Good News" by Adam Bulger, The Hartford Advocate, June 12, 2008.

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• Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those who are inconsistent live on the ethical or aesthetic shadow of Christian truth while they deny the reality that made the shadow.

  Norman Geisler

  Christian, Suicide, Atheist

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• There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous.

  Mitch Daniels

  Conservative, Outlook, Vigorous

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• In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Ordinary, Would Be, Matter

  Simon Greenleaf (1846). “An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice: With an Account of the Trial of Jesus”, p.30

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• Given any rule, however "fundamental" or "necessary" for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite. For example, there are circumstances when it is advisable to introduce, elaborate and defend ad hoc hypotheses, or hypotheses which contradict well-established and generally accepted experimental results, or hypotheses whose content is smaller than the content of the existing and empirically adequate alternative, or self-inconsistent hypotheses, and so on.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Opposites, Self

  "Against Method". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1975.

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• If the Constitution says that marriage is between a man and woman, then things that are inconsistent with that would be inconsistent with the Constitution.

  Rick Santorum

  Men, Would Be, Constitution

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next.

  James Anthony Froude

  Needs, Next, Opinion

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.91

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