“Consistency is the defense of a small mind”
Source: The Seeress of Kell
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David Eddings 43
American novelist 1931–2009Related quotes
“Service is service, wherever it occurred. The defense of the fatherland is no small thing.”
Quoted in "The Gates of Hell" - Page 343 - by Harrison Evans Salisbury - 1976
1930s, Wisehart interview (1930)
Context: I do not believe in a God who maliciously or arbitrarily interferes in the personal affairs of mankind. My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!
"Wordsworth in the Tropics" in Do What You Will (1929)
Source: Do What You Will: Twelve Essays
Context: Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. Consistent intellectualism and spirituality may be socially valuable, up to a point; but they make, gradually, for individual death.
"Buddhism and the Charter" in Religion and International Affairs (1968) edited by Jeffrey Rose and Michael Ignatieff, p. 114
“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
Source: Self-Reliance
... While we await the precise moment when all of capitalism's victims will indignantly rise to destroy the system, we are being devoured. ... Some of us are going to have to take our courage in hand and build a hard revolutionary cadre for selective retaliatory violence.
Source: From Blood in My Eye (1971), pp. 11-12