Inconsistencies Quotes

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I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep the rough edges and the inconsistencies, that's what makes it interesting.… — Jarvis Cocker
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man… — Christopher Hitchens
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies. — L. Sprague de Camp
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what… — Jonathan Swift
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest… — Lord Chesterfield
Holiness is the sum of a million little things â€” the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of… — Kevin DeYoung
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… — Lord Chesterfield
Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies . — Napoleon Hill
Once infected, the individual [infected with a god virus] cannot detect major contradictions in his beliefs and behavior. Belief systems become self-evident to him, and… — Darrel Ray
Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies. — Tommy Chong
And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too,… — Umberto Eco
That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies. — Matt Stone
...there ... remains a huge following [of Ayn Rand's philosophy] of those who ignore the indiscretions, infidelities, and moral inconsistencies of the founder and focus… — Michael Shermer
Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity. — Edwin Louis Cole
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. — Thomas Hardy
Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. — Jane Austen
I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's… — Louisa May Alcott
Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as… — Marisha Pessl
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased… — Frederick Douglass

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