Consistency Quotes - Page 2

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.

If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living

Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

The one thing I always talk about in terms of restaurants is consistency.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don't be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.

The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Consistency is what counts; you have to be able to do things over and over again.

The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.

I can see little consistency in a type of Christian activity which preaches the gospel on the street corners and at the ends of earth, but neglects the children of the covenant by abandoning them to a cold and unbelieving secularism.

The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

The universe exists only through a constant dance of consistency and change. Through consistency, consciousness finds meaning; through change it finds stimulation and expansion. To find consistency within change is to embrace the unfolding flow.

Everything you need to get that relaxed driving that brings consistency only comes with practice.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

You will make mistakes, disappoint God and others, and have days when you wonder why God ever called you in the first place. Don’t despair! Your usefulness to God is based on His consistency, not yours. Your call is sustained by God’s faithfulness, not yours.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

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.

As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.

Constancy is the complement of all the other human virtues.