The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.
The world's a scene of changes and to be constant in nature is inconstancy.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Create
We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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.
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.
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 contradi...
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't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one.
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
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.
A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure so immovable so disdainful so contemplative so solemn and serious as an ass?
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