Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. People who honestly mean to be true, really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ‘consistent’.
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency. Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they’re going to catch you in next.
| A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. – ‘Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.’ – Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Fear of inconsistency is what that some time leads us not to do what we want to. For sure todays generation dealing with so many things in daily life is facing this problem. Once this fear is gone, consistency will be there. We only need to put sincere efforts.
Inconsistency is today’s common problem. But it is something which can be dealt with practice and experience.
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