Quotes About Inconsistency

We starve the rats, creosote the ticks, swat the flies, step on the cockroaches and poison the scales. Yet when these pests appear in human form we go paralytic.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

The two terms are mutually exclusive. Like military intelligence. An oxymoron, emphasis on moron.

Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it.

The state of Illinois contained twenty-seven different time zones, Wisconsin thirty-eight. In Pittsburgh the train station had six clocks, and each one showed a different time. When a clock struck noon in Washington, D.C., the time was 12:08 in Philadelphia, 12:12 in New York, and 12:24 in Boston.

feelings are one of the most inconsistent aspects of the human person.

My childhood was so inconsistent that I never expected normalcy, and it's enough for me to be able to have time and space to be good to myself and the people around me. Children are nice, but I decided to save myself instead.

Irony, like sin, never rests.

He had never been a religious person. Even as a child he had found the notion of an omnipotent creator who punished his crations inconsistently for minor infractions of a vaguely defined moral code to be unthinkable to anyone with an ounce of sense.

Y a las veces su carácter será el de no tenerlo

We are a rotating cast of aspects of self that are shown to one person, or in one setting, and hidden in another. Memorial services are often jarring in this regard: friends and relatives eulogize the deceased in such conflicting terms they might be talking of different people.

The funniest thing about being a human is that you can easily disagree with yourself.

We have been teaching exactly the same things that we claim to avoid in life.

We say one thing while wishing for another. It's human nature.

if an astronomer calculates from the sky he will ascertain the paths of the moon and the stars; but in his house the womenfolk are at variance, and he does not perceive their various misconduct.

fear alone, shaped by capricious whim, would never foster loyalty.

In short, their practice contradicts what they profess. They are trapped in cognitive dissonance.

But don't you see that as an inconsistency in your views?" the young man asked. Dawkins replied, "I sort of do, yes. But it is an inconsistency that we sort of have to live with, otherwise life would be intolerable.

But of course, by carving out an exception for themselves, they have introduced a logical inconsistency into their system. They have stated that there is one thing (namely, their own thinking) that their system does not cover.

I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.

Military Intelligence' is an oxymoron, just like 'Government Organisation' is. A bloody game with no rules.

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.

Not all books of same size, weight, length, thickness have same number of pages.

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