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~ Consistency Quotes ~
« on: July 19, 2016, 07:33:56 PM »
Consistency Quotes


Famous Consistency quotes by popular authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Smith, Joseph Addison, W. Somerset Maugham, Bernard Berenson and others.




[highlight-text]Shoemaker stick to your last.

Pliny

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« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2016, 07:34:57 PM »
[highlight-text]Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Oscar Wilde

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« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2016, 07:36:12 PM »
[highlight-text]Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

Horace Smith

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« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2016, 07:36:50 PM »
[highlight-text]The only man who can change his mind is the man who's got one.

Edward Noyes Westcott

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« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2016, 07:38:05 PM »
[highlight-text]Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

Thorstein Veblen

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« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2016, 07:38:59 PM »
[highlight-text]Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Bernard Berenson

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« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2016, 07:39:45 PM »
[highlight-text]Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

W. Somerset Maugham

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« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2016, 07:40:31 PM »
[highlight-text]A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2016, 07:41:49 PM »
[highlight-text]People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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« Reply #9 on: July 19, 2016, 07:42:30 PM »
[highlight-text]Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Joseph Addison

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« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2016, 07:43:57 PM »
[highlight-text]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.

Mark Twain

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« Reply #11 on: July 19, 2016, 07:45:38 PM »
[highlight-text]A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson