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. Essays, First Series - Page 64by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1891 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
| Francis Wheen - 2000 - 466 pages
...Waldo Emerson's def1ant creed: 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of litde minds, adored by litde statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.' It is no surprise, then, that a man who was perpetually skint throughout his working career should... | |
| Paul Finkelman - 2002 - 488 pages
...Howard, Commentaries on the Constitution of Virginia, 1:61 [footnotes omitted]. 36. Ibid. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted in John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, i5th ed., ed. Emily Morrison Beck... | |
| Robert Pinto - 2001 - 178 pages
...sketched in the preceding two paragraphs. 3. WHEN lS lT REASONABLE TO TOLERATE lNCONSlSTENCY? A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson in Essays, "Self- Reliance" (First Series, 1841). Some faults are reprehensible;... | |
| Lucas Bergkamp - 2001 - 744 pages
...normative implications; a judge should strive at consistency, coherence and integrity. — ' "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Emerson RW. Self Reliance. In: Essays and Other Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1940, p. 152. Note... | |
| 2002 - 704 pages
...v^T - ¿ ír.Sv^ÜJ-C- Ó o K*A¿ > bee-Íj-JlCT-lí, -tí 3n>^En75s-ib print «'FINIS' ; A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. --Ralph Waldo Emerson FINIS if li, -&1*& BLOCK .UL <t •? о $1, $2 ...... U Perlfic ю (¿, ; , BLOCK... | |
| W. Warner Burke - 2002 - 348 pages
...change effort — despite Ralph Waldo Emerson's derogatory comment about consistency, to wit, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored...by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." The key to this quote, however, is Emerson's adjective foolish, and consistency of word and deed by... | |
| William A. Giovinazzo - 2003 - 356 pages
...from the ERP systems so as to not impact the operation of the business. To quote Emerson, "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...by little statesmen, and philosophers and divines." In considering whether we can practically run our ERP system and our data warehouse on one system,... | |
| Mary Lutyens - 2003 - 266 pages
...all his clothes to someone in need. He once gave away his only overcoat. Emerson has said, 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.' If in nothing else, the inconsistencies in K's character would make him a great soul. From the time... | |
| 156 pages
...judgments, even if it seems that we contradict ourselves. So what, Emerson seems to say: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do — Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speaks what to-morrow thinks in hard words... | |
| Robert Fogelin - 2003 - 226 pages
...then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot. I will spue thee out of my mouth. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance" Do I contradict myself? Very well then ... I contradict myself;... | |
| |