249 quotes found
“True consistency that of the prudent and the wise is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.”
“Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.”
“Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
“In a way winter is the real spring the time when the inner things happen the resurge of nature.”
“Mourning is not forgetting. ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.”
“Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.”
“It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together that it prolongs it is the parting.”
“With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contr...”
“People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."”
“New links must be forged as old ones rust.”
“To be honest one must be inconsistent.”
“The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one.”
“The hearts of great men can be changed.”
“Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.”
“You cannot step twice into the same river for other waters are continually flowing on.”
“Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.”
“A man's fortune must first be changed from within.”
“The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.”
“There is danger in reckless change but greater danger in blind conservatism.”
“If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one check your pulse. You may be dead.”
