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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
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- Source:
- Self-Reliance
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-05-01
- Hash:
- 3f141e505bad4b8bdb7ff30e109faf9cdb4803a58ecef293b6f856a58f403974
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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.”
Michael de Montaigne
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“No creature smarts so little as a fool.”
Alexander Pope
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“A fool must now and then be right by chance.”
William Cowper
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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