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

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

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.

Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.