Quotes about Inconsistency

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

Do not expect consistency. Everything is a contradiction of everything else. Nothing exists but contradictions.

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.

God is a logical, rational being, though he does not necessarily conform to the laws of any human system of logic. The laws of logic are an aspect of his own character. Being logical is his nature and his pleasure. So the fact that he cannot be illogical is not a weakness. It may not be fairly described as a lack of power. Indeed it is a mark of his great power that he always acts and thinks consistently, that he can never be pushed into the inconsistencies that plague human life.

The philosopher must argue for sense experience by appealing to sense experience. What choice does he have? If he appeals to something else as his final authority, he is simply being inconsistent. But this is the case with any basic commitment. When we are arguing on behalf of an absolute authority, then our final appeal must be to that authority and to no other. A proof of the primacy of reason must appeal to reason; a proof of the necessity of logic must appeal to logic;

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.

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

Blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.