Best 25 quotes in «inconsistency quotes» category

The constant, obvious flattery, contrary to all evidence, of the people around him [Tsar Nicholas I] had brought him to the point that he no longer saw his contradictions, no longer conformed his actions and words to reality, logic, or even simple common sense, but was fully convinced that all his orders, however senseless, unjust, and inconsistent with each other, became sensible, just, and consistent with each other only because he gave them.

Men are seldom struck by incongruities in their appearance any more than their own conduct.

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.

People define you; analyze you by their own way. They see you; react at you under the best of their perception and cognition. Why people can’t accept anyone’s existence as a distinct entity? Is this due to the lack of good discernment? Or it is the direct underestimation of individuality? Maybe the acceptance of anyone’s intuitive understanding of the eternal conflict between inconsistency and compatibility.

The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values.

If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living

The earliest known copies of Jewish Scriptures in Hebrew dated to the tenth and eleventh centuries CE, and among them the differences were mostly small and insignificant. Taking them as witnesses to the earlier texts from which they were copied, it seemed logical to conclude that these many homogeneous texts must have derived from a common original via a highly accurate scribal tradition. But evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls seems to contradict this conclusion. Among the hundreds of biblical manuscripts discovered there, many of which are more than a thousand years older than anything scholars had ever seen before, we find not uniformity but diversity, including many significant differences. The logical assumption now is that Jewish Scriptures became more uniform and free of variants over time, as scribes gradually established a more or less standard edition.

The writer who's afraid to contradict himself will never write anything.

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

Every joke can't be dazzling. And if you think you spotted an inconsistency, you did!

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

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.

Nature is full for us of seeming inconsistencies and glad surprises.

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

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.

The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.

The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

A widespread meticulous consistency causes a bigger suspicion than the most obvious inconsistency does.

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.

There are inconsistencies in Donald Trump's ideology.

Hard to trust honesty of inconsistent person.