Consistency Quotes

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. (Maya Angelou)
It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. View quote
Bernard Berenson
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature. View quote
Vitruvius
As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency. View quote
John Cage
In the penultimate decade of the twentieth century science is sufficiently advanced to resolve the puzzles that stymied scientists in the last century and demonstrate, without metaphysical speculation, the consistency of evolution in all realms of experience. It is now possible to advance a general evolution theory based on unitary and mutually consistent concepts derived from the empirical sciences. View quote
Ervin László
I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same. View quote
Norman Wisdom
Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do. View quote
Barbara Coloroso
We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government. View quote
Ferdinand Mount
For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point. View quote
Frank Shorter
First of all when you're a mommy like you like the consistency of being on a show like that's just peace of mind, I know I have financial, you know stability. (Nia Long)
The crown and glory of life is Character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in the general goodwill; dignifying every station, and exalting every position in society. It exercises a greater power than wealth, and secures all the honour without the jealousies of fame. It carries with it an influence which always tells; for it is the result of proved honour, rectitude, and consistency - qualities which, perhaps more than any other, command the general confidence and respect of mankind. View quote
Samuel Smiles
His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency. View quote
Jared Diamond
My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth. View quote
Anthony de Mello
Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does Poincaré, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs. View quote
David Hilbert
Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man He 's ben on all sides thet give places or pelf But consistency still wuz a part of his plan, He 's ben true to one party, an' thet is himself. View quote
James Russell Lowell
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The rarest of all human qualities is consistency. View quote
Jeremy Bentham
[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency. (Jeremy Bentham)
Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency. View quote
Soren Kierkegaard
Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty. View quote
Nelson Mandela
[Though computer science is a fairly new discipline, it is predominantly based on the Cartesian world view. As Edsgar W. Dijkstra has pointed out] A scientific discipline emerges with the - usually rather slow! - discovery of which aspects can be meaningfully 'studied in isolation for the sake of their own consistency. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency. View quote
Larry Wall