Famous quotes containing the words consistency, proof, relation and/or theorem:
“People who love only once in their lives are ... shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failures.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)