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Quotes About Inconsistency

Never underestimate the human capacity for stupid, illogical, and petty behaviour.
~ Raymond E. Feist
There is no inconsistency in favouring Darwinism as an academic scientist while opposing it as a human being;
~ Richard Dawkins
But then that's humans for you—never can trust the stroppy fuckers to live up to the stereotypes you assign.
~ Richard K. Morgan
Evil people can do good. Good people can do evil. Why does this happen sometimes? Because it's Tuesday.
~ Karin Slaughter
In Teddy's experience people who claimed to be one thing were generally the opposite
~ Kate Atkinson
Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
~ John Henry Newman
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
~ Erica Jong
Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.
~ Max Beerbohm
A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.
~ Patricia McCormick
One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It's because we're different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.
~ Tommy Emmanuel
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
~ Margaret Fuller
Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
The only consistency in the way humans think about animals is inconsistency.
~ Hal Herzog
Behaviours and feelings rarely line up.
~ Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
An inconsistent political philosophy is that which feeds our battle yet starves our victory.
~ Mike Klepper
There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
~ John Galsworthy
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
~ Moliere
To be honest one must be inconsistent.
~ H. G. Wells
To be alive, Professor Sharif, means not being completely consistent. It means venturing out in many directions all at the same time,
~ David Lagercrantz
To be alive, Professor Sharif, means not being completely consistent.
~ David Lagercrantz
One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him.
~ Theodore L. Cuyler
The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isnt it?
~ Jarvis Cocker
My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."
~ Paul Beatty