Top 82 Quotes About Inconsistency
#1. She's familiar. My only familiar thing in a world of inconsistency and confusion.
Colleen Hoover
#2. Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
Franklin P. Jones
#3. No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
[Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#4. Only when you give up being consistent will you find the truth! Inconsistency makes you free to discover other roads.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#5. Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.
Mark Twight
#6. Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top
Boethius
#7. Ask God to reveal hypocrisy in your life - an inconsistency between what you profess and what you practice. Then ask God to bring you so close to Christ that you won't have any desire to live an inconsistent, deceitful life.
Billy Graham
#8. People have often accused me of inconsistency but i feel that i have always, at any given junction, done the same thing. Exactly what i pleased.
Joe Abercrombie
#9. Whether particular people with the capacity to take an objective point of view actually do take this objective viewpoint into account when they act will depend on the strength of their desire to avoid inconsistency between the way they reason publicly and the way they act.
Peter Singer
#10. One cannot fail to notice the inconsistency of those rejecting human rights: their rejection takes place in the public square created by human rights. It is difficult to reject human rights without using them.
Filip Spagnoli
#11. More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.
Charles Eastman
#12. If you mix a negative attitude with chaos and sprinkle a little inconsistency over the top, you are almost guaranteed to fail.
Shannon Sorrels
#13. If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living
Errol Flynn
#14. It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#16. Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency;
Frederick Douglass
#17. There is no inconsistency when God raises up those who have fallen prostrate.
John Calvin
#18. A barbarous practice, the inconsistency, folly, and injury of which no words can sufficiently describe.
[Condemning the use of mercurial medicines.]
Thomas Graham
#19. Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#20. This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russell Lowell
#21. Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon.
Jacques Maritain
#22. As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
John Cage
#24. 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
#25. I would not be good with someone who did drugs. As long as I know something, I can deal with anything. I'm really good. But what I'm not good with is inconsistency. And I'm not good with not knowing.
Courteney Cox
#26. A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.
Michael Medved
#27. Today, we are announcing that agencies are releasing their final regulatory reform plans, including hundreds of initiatives that will reduce costs, simplify the system, and eliminate redundancy and inconsistency.
Cass Sunstein
#28. We fear God is upset with us because of our inconsistency. He isn't. He doesn't get shocked or even surprised by our childish ways. He doesn't withdraw His support from us. The separation occurs when we move.
Toni Sorenson
#29. Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.
Thomas Sowell
#30. The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.
Jonah Lehrer
#31. At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of the individual is the supreme value can, without a fundamental inconsistency, follow the practice of deliberately putting one of its members to death.
William J. Brennan
#32. In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency.
Paul Johnson
#34. Prayer makes tremendous power available (James 5:16). Don't let your prayer life reflect weeds of inconsistency or neglect.
Joyce Meyer
#35. The only consistency in the way humans think about animals is inconsistency.
Hal Herzog
#36. A widespread meticulous consistency causes a bigger suspicion than the most obvious inconsistency does!
Pawan Mishra
#37. Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it.
Mason Cooley
#38. It now becomes clear that consistency is not a property of a formal system per se, but depends on the interpretation which is proposed for it. By the same token, inconsistency is not an intrinsic property of any formal system.
Douglas R. Hofstadter
#39. Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.
Ann Radcliffe
#40. By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#41. We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
Mark Twain
#42. How often have you and I helped to keep sinners easy in their sin, by our inconsistency! Had we been true Christians, the wicked man would often have been pricked to the heart, and his conscience would have convicted him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#43. There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously.
John Calvin
#44. Inconsistency is a great door for the change and for the progression! Never hesitate to be inconsistent!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.
John Maynard Keynes
#46. Bless the ladies and their charming inconsistency! They demand to be treated like men, but they react like women.
Elizabeth Peters
#47. Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Joseph Addison
#48. Every character is in some respects uniform, and in others inconsistent; and it is only by the study both of the uniformity and inconsistency, and a comparison of them with each other, that the knowledge of man is acquired.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
#49. I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)
Jonathan Safran Foer
#50. One cannot live without inconsistency.
Carl Jung
#51. There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
Jonathan Swift
#52. And everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters.
Jane Austen
#53. Satan never wastes a fiery dart by aiming at a spot covered by armor. The bull's eye is located dead center in our inconsistency. That's where the enemy plans to bring us down.
Beth Moore
#54. But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#55. Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.
Horace Smith
#56. Keith Gillespie just lacks a little bit of inconsistency.
Graeme Le Saux
#57. The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.
James C. Collins
#58. There is no lapse in His character or inconsistency in His nature. Our God is everything he says He is ... for now and all eternity.
Matt Redman
#59. implies that there can be short intervals of inconsistency among the replicated nodes during which the data gets updated among these nodes. In other words, the replicas are updated asynchronously.
C.Y. Kan
#60. Everything seemed to have less to do with power, and more to do with right and wrong. And it was also apparent that laws were being manipulated using the inconsistency of free will and the shitty make-up of human nature. ~RUIN Katara Aggelos
Lucian Bane
#61. The more I see the world, most dislike, and the time confirms my belief in the inconsistency of human nature and how little can one trust the appearances of goodness or intelligence
Jane Austen
#62. Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
E. M. Forster
#63. Sometimes you've got to draw a line between having all the options and being a slave to the things, using them every time you play the guitar. I'm trying to keep a real inconsistency to the pedals so that it is something new every time.
Joshua Homme
#64. They would know that inconsistency in human decision can make nonsense of the best-planned espionage approach; that cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a Departmental canteen.
John Le Carre
#65. There is no inconsistency in God's commanding us not to take upon ourselves what belongs to Him alone. For to execute vengeance belongs to none but Him who is Lord of all; for when the powers of the world rightly accomplish this end, God himself does it who appointed them for the purpose.
Anselm Of Canterbury
#66. Every joke can't be dazzling. And if you think you spotted an inconsistency, you did!
George Meyer
#67. His inconsistency. His inability to finish anything. His sudden terrifying feelings that nothing he did mattered. His realizations that what went on in the outside world had more substance than anything in his life.
Lydia Davis
#68. 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 to outward appearance differed but little from the indifferentism ...
Samuel Butler
#69. Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.
Those whom I deemed
Changed to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,
Have aged and lost our old affinity:
One has to change to stay akin to me.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#70. Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility.
Pope Francis
#71. On a wrong road, inconsistency is inevitable; if it were not so, mankind would be sacrificed. A false principle never has been, and never will be, carried out to the end.
Frederic Bastiat
#72. Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions.
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
#73. Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
Joseph Addison
#75. But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#76. Hard to trust honesty of inconsistent person.
Toba Beta
#77. We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, its own game, and there is as much difference betwixt us and ourselves as betwixt us and others.
Michel De Montaigne
#78. The writer who's afraid to contradict himself will never write anything.
Marty Rubin
#79. In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
Henry Adams
#80. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#82. Nature is full for us of seeming inconsistencies and glad surprises.
Margaret E. Barber
