(1856 quotes found)
“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato”
Alfred North Whitehead
““If you do what you do well enough, long enough, consistently enough and fast enough, you will win the race.””
Peter Padilla
“Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.”
Stephen Vizinczey
“Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood”
Laurence Sterne
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative”
Oscar Wilde
“With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.”
“Salvador Dali seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman's shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door.”
Luis Buñuel
“The world consists almost exclusively of people who are one sort and who behave like another sort”
Zona Gale
“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
