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Quotes About Inconsistency

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.
~ David J. Lieberman
There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.
~ Henry David Thoreau
After all, the trouble with what the scientists said was that they were always saying something different. This year one idea, next year something else. Scientific opinion was ever changing, like the fashions of women's dress, while the firm and fixed date 4004 BC invited the attention of those seeking greater verity.
~ Michael Crichton
There was absolutely no consistency to the experience.
~ Michael E. Gerber
when presented with duplicates of the same ulcer, every doctor had contradicted himself
~ Michael Lewis
There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth certificate.
~ Michael Gough
I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.
~ Courteney Cox
The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!
~ T.S. Eliot
I … there is a great discrepancy between
~ Julie Cohen
Luckily for the people she helped, my mother was gloriously inconsistent. She lived according to the more enlightened parts of the Bible and ignored the rest. For instance, no matter what she claimed the Bible taught about homosexuality, Mom acted as if being born gay was just another way to be human. She provided refuge, love and compassion to many gay
~ Frank Schaeffer
The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.
~ Frank Zappa
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
~ Franklin P. Jones
There were discrepancies. Sometimes
~ Frederick Forsyth
Je öfter sich ein Politiker widerspricht, desto größer ist er.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Because a lot of our philosophical stances these days are kind of half-assed. We're very bold in our proclamations of our own moral rectitude, but then we neglect to even keep our own toilets clean. You see a lot of that kind of thing. I used to see it all the time in my punk-rock days. Those guys were super-concerned with having the right political and philosophical views. But they never seemed to be able to keep their showers free from mold or
~ Brad Warner
Humans don't make sense." "If you're only now learning that," Kaladin said, "then you haven't been paying attention.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Not that there's anything wrong with humans. I find their frail, emotionally unstable, irrational natures quite endearing.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Lógicamente inconsistente. Obviamente incierto.
~ Brandon Sanderson
It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.
~ Brennan Manning
If reason be judge, no writer has produced such inconsistent characters as nature herself has. It must call for no small sagacity in a reader unerringly to discriminate in a novel between the inconsistencies of conception and those of life. As elsewhere, experience is the only guide here; but as no one man's experience can be coextensive with what is, it may be unwise in every case to rest upon it.
~ Herman Melville
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
~ Laurence J. Peter
The media is going to treat you good one day and bad the next day.
~ Jason Williams
Climate change poses tremendous threat to water resources, as there is inconsistency in the rains.
~ Johan Rockstrom