Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike. Now he is for marrying; and now a mistress is preferred to a wife. Now he is ambitious and aspiring; presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he. This hour he squanders his money away; the next he turns miser. Sometimes he is frugal and serious; at other times profuse, airy, and gay.

People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change.

I'm inconsistent because I'm human.

I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

Well, it takes all kinds to make a mess.

There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.

I don't really do simple. I'm not really interested in simple at the end of the day, because nothing's ever simple, and nothing's ever perfect. People certainly aren't - I would hope, anyway, because that would be boring, wouldn't it?

His opinions are like water in the bottom of a canoe, going from side to side.

... the populace is variable and inconstant, so that, if a reputation be not kept up, it quickly withers away.

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.

Every game is going to be different.

If anyone knows women, we like a lot of different things and we're not predictable. We definitely don't fall into a cookie-cutter mold. And I think that's one of the coolest things about us. You never know what's coming next.

That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.