Relative Consistency

Famous quotes containing the words relative and/or consistency:

“Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.”
—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)

“The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)