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QUOTATION: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. ... Reference > Quotations > John Bartlett, comp. > Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. > 6279. Ralph Waldo Emerson...
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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.
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Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. ... A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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Quotation #26760 from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations: ... A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance; US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)
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View a Detailed Biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson ... A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson; US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)
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We have always done it this way! Why change. It means simply that you need to open your mind to other possibilities, some of which may be so unpalatable that you cannot contemplate them. So you don't. So your mind remains closed.
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We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put.
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This idea by Emerson is one I've been struggling to impress upon myself in my attempts to not be a little mind. ... My problem is not that I hold my potential utterances to too high a standard, it is that I hold them to the wrong standard: consistency instead of integrity. ... Hobgoblin euro Blanchardian Taxonomy Godzilla vs.
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