19 quotes about Consistency

Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

Bacon, Francis

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

Bacon, Francis

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Berenson, Bernard

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

Bronte, Charlotte

No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.

Conner, Dennis

A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

Disraeli, Benjamin

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

Horace

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

Huxley, Aldous

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Huxley, Aldous

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Joubert, Joseph

Without consistency there is no moral strength.

Owen

Constants aren't.

Peers, John

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

Smith, Horatio

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

Twain, Mark

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

Vizinczey, Stephen

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Wilde, Oscar