Quotation Explorer - 'Inconsistent'

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. - Ambrose Bierce
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. - Seneca
Christian, n. One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin. - Ambrose Bierce
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it. - John Calhoun
Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to itself - John Jakes
A consistent outlook is inconsistent with reality. - Marty Rubin
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated
Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Always dream high. Never let it down by inconsistent efforts. Your relentless labour & integrity make you successful in the long run. - Md. Mujib Ullah
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself. - Maurice Edelman
An inconsistent political philosophy is that which feeds our battle yet starves our victory. - Mike Klepper
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