Quotes About Inconsistency

The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

De mensen zijn zo consequent als een toverbal en zo voorspelbaar als een tsunami en soms deugen ze opeens.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

These characteristics are caused by the fact that you never knew when, or if, your parents would be emotionally available to you. You only knew unpredictability and inconsistency. Once the drinking or the trouble began, you simply did not exist. From experience you knew your needs would not be met until the drinking episode and any accompanying crises were over.

In truth, we are all fast and slow, strong and weak, motivated and lazy in a thousand tiny ways throughout our days that the generalizations simply don't capture.

something which is absurd or logically contradictory, but which appears at first glance to be the result of sound reasoning.

For smart monkeys, we can, when the mood takes us, be exceedingly stupid.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Piensas una cosa deseas otra amas otra haces otra cosa

The lesson and the imperative of psychoanalysis is not "Let us devote all our attention to the sexual (meaning) as our ultimate horizon"; it is instead a reduction of sex and the sexual (which, in fact, has always been overloaded with meanings and interpretations) to the point of ontological inconsistency, which, as such, is irreducible.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another

To be perfectly honest with you, having a mother as an actress - who I watched struggle tremendously during my childhood - and to watch fluctuations of ups and downs is difficult. She did mainly television, so I think I associated that with a life of inconsistency. As I've come into my own, I realize it has nothing to do with the medium.

I spent a lot of my adolescence in Miami, where it was super humid, and my hair would get super frizzy, and my waves weren't really consistent or pretty.

I have just been a bit inconsistent when I have played. That happens in football, especially when you have been out for a long period.

My cognitive skills are a little suspect at times. It comes and goes on certain days. I can be sitting here and you might say what's wrong with him, and I'll figure out what I was saying and start going again.

In 2013, I changed to left-hand low, or cross-handed. And it's helped a lot. At the time, the reason I switched was just a lot of inconsistency with putting. I was either making a lot of putts, or I was missing a lot of putts.

And this was someone who only yesterday had proposed marriage to me. Like everything else at the moment, it didn't add up.

The conception of people acting against their own best interests should not startle us. We see it occasionally in sleep-walking and in politics, every day.

He hated when his own advice applied to himself.

She was fond of her children in an uneven, impulsive way. She would sometimes gather them passionately to her heart; she would sometimes forget them.