67 quotes found
“I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”
“I think the intellectual consistency of Christianity in historical evidence is frankly overwhelming, but my materialist colleagues regard me as a slightly sad case.”
“But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.”
“life is hard to explain, difficult to understand but you still need life.”
“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism which...”
“Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.”
“The harder the struggle, the bigger the gain. The important thing is to stick with it, repetitively and consistently.”
“As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...”
“Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.”
“Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.”
“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
“Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.”
“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.”
“People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.”
“The only man who can change his mind is the man who's got one.”
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
“Shoemaker stick to your last.”
“I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.”
“He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed him in exactly the same manner as it had addressed hundreds of other boys, all varying in characte...”
“Consistency is an under-appreciated inspirational quality. It’s that ability to conduct yourself in a consistent, reliable manner that others will respect and appreciate.”
