A collection of quotes I came across today in a NYTimes comment thread. Thanks, Ed Herger.
“My commitment is to truth as I see it each day, not to consistency.” – Mohandas Gandhi
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When the facts change I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” – John Maynard Keynes
“Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.” – Cervantes
“The thug is aware that loudness convinces sixty persons where reasoning convinces but one.” – Mark Twain
“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” – Thomas Paine
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“I voted for the war before I voted against it…” John Kerry
I’ll take it.