Quotes About Inconsistencies

He had entered by then the broad, human path of inconsistencies.

The halo effect helps keep explanatory narratives simple and coherent by exaggerating the consistency of evaluations: good people do only good things and bad people are all bad. The statement "Hitler loved dogs and little children" is shocking no matter how many times you hear it, because any trace of kindness in someone so evil violates the expectations set up by the halo effect. Inconsistencies reduce the ease of our thoughts and the clarity of our feelings.

Inconsistencies reduce the ease of our thoughts and the clarity of our feelings.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.

Human nature is full of inconsistencies

A natureza humana está cheia de incongruências.

Do not be alarmed by the minor inconsistencies in the syntax. They are meant to heighten your level of attention and thereby make you a better programmer.

Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.

But later in high school she became both bored and confused. Bored at the trivia she was taught and confused by the inconsistencies of the teachers who taught it. She wanted to learn how to deal with reality and evaluate it objectively, how to think. She was taught that language has no meaning, poetry needs no structure, and philosophy is fine in theory but useless in practice.

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

One of my pleasures is observing people's behavior and pointing out the inconsistencies that we all sort of have at the center of our lives.

The version I got of Christianity was quite confusing to me, even as a child, because there were certain things that didn't add up.

notice these inconsistencies: Christian and anti-Christian polemicists

When it comes to Iran, we must not accept Obama's inconsistencies and weakness.

I fly every single week, sometimes up to four days a week, and I see incredible inconsistencies in TSA throughout our country.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation.

Unlike the laws of physics, which are free of inconsistencies, every man-made order is packed with internal contradictions. Cultures are constantly trying to reconcile these contradictions, and this process fuels change.

A diferencia de las leyes de la física, que carecen de inconsistencias, todo orden creado por el hombre está repleto de contradicciones internas.

he is awash in self-delusion, a condition especially dangerous in people who have significant power over others. Dimon doesn't see how he has contributed to the mess we're in. He doesn't acknowledge the inconsistencies between his preferred self-image as "patriot first" and his roles as CEO of America's largest bank and chair of the Business Roundtable. He doesn't understand how he has hijacked the system.

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems except the things in the world that just don't add up.

It is actually a sophisticated self-protective mechanism known as trauma denial—a type of self-delusion that we employ when too much is at stake and we have too much to lose. The mind needs coherence, so it disposes of inconsistencies that threaten the structure of our lives.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.