114 Inconsistent Quotes
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Famous Inconsistent Quotes
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency. — Jonathan Swift
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. — Aldous Huxley
...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency. — Jeremy Bentham
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
If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living — Errol Flynn
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. — Franklin P. Jones
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art. — George Bernard Shaw
Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic. — John Rawls
Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. — Hugh Mackay
The problem isn't knowledge. The problem was consistency. — James Clear
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position. — Mahatma Gandhi
No matter how consistent you are with your habits, it is inevitable that life will interrupt you at some point. — James Clear
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. — Bernard Berenson
It’s a contradiction that we all deal with. — Naval Ravikant
I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective. — Anthony Bourdain
Short Inconsistent Quotes
- He says one thing and does another — Greek Proverbs
- Words don’t match with actions. — Vietnamese Proverbs
- Something doesn’t add up to many fish. — Icelandic Proverbs
- Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it. — John C. Calhoun
- A liar is forgetful. — Afghan Proverbs
- Once on the wagon, once underneath it. — Polish Proverbs
- I'm Mozart with a focus on the tide Hiding the inconsistencies of man behind water and wine — Aesop Rock
- Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies. — Tommy Chong
- When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Inconsistency itself breeds vitality. — Kenzo Tange
Consistently Inconsistent Quotes
Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those who are inconsistent live on the ethical or aesthetic shadow of Christian truth while they deny the reality that made the shadow. — Norman Geisler
The most important belief we possess is a true knowledge of who God is. The second most important belief is who we are as children of God, because we cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with how we perceive ourselves. — Neil T Anderson
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
Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent! — Tom Robbins
As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency. — John Cage
It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none. — Nicholas D. Kristof
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. — Edward George BulwerLytton
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies. — Myles Horton
Being Inconsistent Quotes
Organized civil disobedience is the correct next response to the prolonged, indefinite and deliberate abuse of exotic emergency powers inconsistent with being a free people in our own country. I don’t want to go there, but it is time. — Eric Weinstein
Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license. — John Desmond Bernal
Because my work is naturally non-meaningful, the meaning found in it will remain doubtful and inconsistent - which is the way it should be. All that I care about is that, like any startling piece of nature, it should be capable of stimulating meaning. — Claes Oldenburg
Usually a championship team is built on a strong defense. That is something you can bring to every game. A great attack is always going to be inconsistent - at least on the scoreboard - that's the nature of the game. — Anson Dorrance
Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns. — Paul Fussell
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated. — Tryon Edwards
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated. — Tryon Edwards
To be honest, one must be inconsistent. — H. G. Wells
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life. — Ramana Maharshi
Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve. — Pope Francis
Inconsistent Love Quotes
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
There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well. — Jane Austen
It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent. — Debra Winger
She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last. — Jonathan Swift
Not Consistent Quotes
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust
The key to the Toyota Way and what makes Toyota stand out is not any of the individual elements…But what is important is having all the elements together as a system. It must be practiced every day in a very consistent manner, not in spurts. — Taiichi Ohno
The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character. — Martin Luther
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life! — John Calvin
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. — Sun Tzu
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. — Pope John Paul II
Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have — Confucius
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends. — Friedrich Engels
Lack Of Consistency Quotes
For most people, lack of consistent, persistent effort is the biggest obstacle. — Edgar Cayce
Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections. — Brent Scowcroft
The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency. — Albert Einstein
I guess I am doomed to remain an outsider to the end, lacking as I am the indispensable qualities of an academic insider: school loyalty, conformity to the procedure, and readiness to obey by the school-endorsed criteria of cohesion and consistency. — Zygmunt Bauman
Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger. — Arundhati Roy
On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life. — Mother Teresa
In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their almost complete lack of systematic thinking. Science to them consists of a number of successful raids into the unknown. — John Desmond Bernal
Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations. — Tariq Ramadan
People Writing About Inconsistent
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 James Clear |
276 | 1 |
 Jonathan Swift |
446 | 2615 |
 Aldous Huxley |
656 | 9462 |
 Jeremy Bentham |
59 | 892 |
 Boethius |
45 | 446 |
 Errol Flynn |
36 | 501 |
More Inconsistent Quotes
The point is this: If God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is meaningless; so in order to be happy he pretends life has meaning. But this is, of course, entirely inconsistent—for without God, man and the universe are without any real significance. — William Lane Craig
The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience. Others only delude themselves and thus upset families, churches, and all other relationships. In their self-pride and judgment of others, they show great inconsistency. — John Owen
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
I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait. — Chris Hemsworth
Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE. — Tristan Tzara
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
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
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies. — L. Sprague de Camp
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things. — Demosthenes
If you're willing to answer yes to a God outside of nature, then there's nothing inconsistent with God on rare occasions choosing to invade the natural world in a way that appears miraculous. — Richard Dawkins
Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
The devil resists serious, focused prayer because he's defeated by it. And so the devil will try to attack our concentration in prayer; he will try to confuse or contradict the content of our prayers; he will do his best to distract and/or divert us in prayer so that we're crippled by inconsistency. — Anne Graham Lotz
Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself. — Mark Twight
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
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
Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words, pleasant looks, a sweet voice and a bright eye from a child or children when they themselves are full of bitterness and scolding! How inconsistent and unreasonable this is! — Brigham Young
Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times was more carnival-like, and very much more the creature of television than the creature of a legitimate literary form. — Rod Serling
There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality. — Bryan White
The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human. — Jane Austen
High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship. — Mahatma Gandhi
Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds. — Thomas Sowell
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