Re: [Paddlewise] Foolish Consistency

From: <tfj_at_interaccess.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 07:04:20 -0500
Emerson I believe.

Chuck Holst wrote:

> >>
> To those who believe there is only one right way I will quote Aldous
> Huxley:
> "Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds". (I think it was Aldous--or
> maybe it was a physicist said it, or maybe a conversation Huxley had with a
> physicist, or was it a mathematician--hate this getting older).
> >>
>
> This was one of my ex-wife's favorite quotations when I caught her in an
> inconsistency, but in fact, I think the full quotation is "A *foolish*
> consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds," and that the author was
> someone who lived before Huxley, though I can't remember who.
>
> Chuck Holst
>
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