Quotes about consistency




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"Consistency is the foundation of virtue."

Bacon, Francis on consistency    Share


"Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect."

Bacon, Francis on consistency    Share

"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."

Berenson, Bernard on consistency    Share

"Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties."

Bronte, Charlotte on consistency    Share

"No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind."

Cicero, Marcus T. on consistency    Share

"My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run."

Conner, Dennis on consistency    Share

"A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance."

Disraeli, Benjamin on consistency    Share

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on consistency    Share

"You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on consistency    Share

"Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent."

Horace on consistency    Share

"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead."

Huxley, Aldous on consistency
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"The only completely consistent people are the dead."

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"Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings."

Joubert, Joseph on consistency    Share

"Without consistency there is no moral strength."

Owen on consistency    Share

"Constants aren't."

Peers, John on consistency    Share

"Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent."

Smith, Horatio on consistency    Share

"What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut."

Twain, Mark on consistency
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"Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not."

Vizinczey, Stephen on consistency    Share

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."

Wilde, Oscar on consistency
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