Posted by Grant Foraker on May 23, 2006 at 10:36:05:
In Reply to: Sysgen posted by Stephen Auerbach on May 23, 2006 at 09:34:38:
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"
A great person does not have to think consistently from one day to the next. This remark comes from the essay “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson does not explain the difference between foolish and wise consistency.