Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.
As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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.
Every joke can't be dazzling. And if you think you spotted an inconsistency, you did!
I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.
Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.
Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency, especially when it regards religion or party. In either of these cases, though a man perhaps does but his duty in changing his side, he not only makes himself hated by those he left, but is seldom heartily esteemed by those he comes over to.
Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.
Only when you give up being consistent will you find the truth! Inconsistency makes you free to discover other roads.
One cannot live without inconsistency.
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.
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. )
Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it.
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.
The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.
The only legitimate interpretation of the concept of the "public" is that it's a highly heterogeneous group of people, and I cannot imagine who has the right to speak on their behalf using a "public" voice. If the multiplicity of the environment is its true nature, then my works defend this truthfulness. The greatest fairness in society is to defend the difference between each individual - the fairness and truthfulness of their inconsistency and differentiation.
For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms.
By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.
The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.
