Top Consistency Quotes

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 Definition

(n.) The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity.

(n.) A degree of firmness, density, or spissitude.

(n.) That which stands together as a united whole; a combination.

(n.) Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.

(n.) Agreement or harmony of all parts of a complex thing among themselves, or of the same thing with itself at different times; the harmony of conduct with profession; congruity; correspondence; as, the consistency of laws, regulations, or judicial decisions; consistency of opinions; consistency of conduct or of character.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

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.