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Quotations about consistency

Aldous HuxleyToo much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. Consistent intellectualism and spirituality may be socially valuable, up to a point; but they make, gradually, for individual death.

 - Aldous Huxley

Tags:   consistency  stagnation  

Ralph Waldo EmersonA foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tags:   consistency  greatness  laziness  

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

 - Aldous Huxley

Tags:   change  consistency  nature