Consistency Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“[Voltaire] was generally unbedeviled by any foolish consistency.”

— Thomas Mallon

“Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”

— Robert B. Cialdini

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

— Philip Johnson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality…

— Albert Einstein

Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

— Aldous Huxley

A feeble mind, conscious of its own feebleness, grows feeble under that very consciousness. As soon as the power of fear becomes known to…

— Hector Berlioz

“Leaving the world behind is the best experience most feeble minds fear to try.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson