(1856 quotes found)
“Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”
Coco Chanel
“My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.”
Dennis Conner
“Emerson has said that consistency is a virtue of an ass. No thinking human being can be tied down to a view once expressed in the name of consistency. More important than consistency is responsibility. A responsible person must learn to unlearn what he has learned. A responsible person must have the courage to rethink and change his thoughts. Of course there must be good and sufficient reason for unlearning what he has learned and for recasting his thoughts. There can be no finality in rethinking.”
B. R. Ambedkar
“Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.”
William Law
“In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.”
Yakov Smirnoff
“Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.”
William Allen White
“A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.”
William Blackstone
