Quotes About Inconsistency

Wise men are not wise at all times.

When they are not at war they do a little hunting, but spend most of their time in idleness, sleeping and eating. The strongest and most warlike do nothing. They vegetate, while the care of hearth and home and fields is left to the women, the old and the weak. Strange inconsistency of temperament, which makes the same men lovers of sloth and haters of tranquility.

I like incongruity.

That's right. Arithmetic as a formal system is inconsistent.

A proof that mathematics is inconsistent, and that all its wondrous beauty was just an illusion, would, it seemed to me, be one of the worst things you could ever learn.

I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

It's disrespectful to tell the French in the morning that you're going to reduce the debt, in the evening that you're not going to make any savings, and the next morning, after thinking about it, that you're going to spend more.

When I was younger, I believed my inconsistency was due to my youth. I believed that age would teach me all I needed to know and that when I was older, I would have learned the lessons of life and discovered the secrets of true spirituality. I am older - a lot older - and the secrets are still secret from me.

Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.

Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

Brazil is very unpopular in Brazil.

We've moved so much, and my life has been so inconsistent.

I fully embrace myself as a hypocrite.

I'm inconsistent, even to myself.

We despise all reverences and all the objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us." Mark Twain, Following the Equator

You can't pour a pint of bitter into a cocktail glass.

The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.

Whether round-ear, pointed-ear, horned, or short, two-legs seemed addicted to dithering.

he swung back and forth between what they told him to do and what he thought would please the public. He was gay and personally charming, and possessed what was called a "mercurial temperament"—meaning that he didn't mind saying the opposite of what he had said yesterday, if in the meantime he had found that he was in danger of losing votes.

For each rule of thumb, there is something that breaks that rule.

the mark of a man is his contradictions.

Do as we say, and not as we do

Lo que indefinida y vertiginosamente cambia no tiene consistencia ni realidad, es tránsito perpetuo, y no sustancia.

One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.