"Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we……" — Stephen Vizinczey
"Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not."
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21 Quotes by Stephen Vizinczey
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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author…
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We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said…
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Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the…
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You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.
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Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.
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The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
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The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality:…
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When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
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Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you…
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Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.
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The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware…
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Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked…
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More Consistency Quotes
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If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there…
— David Axelrod
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I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the…
— Drew Barrymore
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Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
— Charlotte Bronte
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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
— Lord Byron
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Trust is built with consistency.
— Lincoln Chafee
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There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well,…
— Hillary Clinton
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue…
— Maya Angelou
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Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually…
— Italo Calvino
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Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals.
— Robin Sharma
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker…
— John Stuart Mill
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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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