“ I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind — and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
- 801
“ Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent. ”
- Horatio Smith- Copy
- 3K
“ Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
- 2.3K
“ I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful. ”
- Shania Twain- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions. ”
- Michelle Shocked- Copy
- 334
“ Inconsistencies cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 1.9K
“ We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy. ”
- R. D. Laing- Copy
- 3.9K
“ We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death. ”
- Theodore Reik- Copy
- 1.2K
“ I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot. ”
- Chris Rock- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. ”
- Charles Bukowski- Copy
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“ Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false. ”
- F. H. Bradley- Copy
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“ Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false. ”
- Francis Herbert Bradley- Copy
- 2.9K
“ By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. ”
- Galileo Galilei- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it. ”
- Liam Gallagher- Copy
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“ There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency, and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency, and a vice. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. ”
- Thomas Hardy- Copy
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“ Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies. ”
- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield- Copy
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“ Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. ”
- Franklin P. Jones- Copy
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“ Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life. ”
- Fernand Braudel- Copy
- 380
“ If you ever come to feel any doubt of my character or of my heartfelt devotion to you… the title of Father of My Country will give me no additional honor, but will be a reproach to you, either for your hasty action in conferring the appellation upon me, or for your inconsistency in changing your estimate of my character. ”
- Tiberius Caesar- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is "All striving is vain," will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy… ”
- William James- Copy
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