People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.
When you're so consistent, people have to stand up and take notice. I don't think people recognise or praise consistency enough.
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.
Those who do wrong very often think others are censuring them, when they are not even thought of.
True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.
People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.
Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
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