(1854 quotes found)
“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
Oscar Wilde
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”
“The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change, for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up”
Charles Morgan
“Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.”
Mark Twain
“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.”
Clifton Fadiman
“Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures”
“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.”
Aldous Huxley
“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.”
“A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could”
Charles Erwin Wilson