Who said, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”?

July 21, 2020August 23, 2011 by Pamela Landy

Ralph Waldo Emerson said the line, in the essay “Self-Reliance” (1841).

The complete quote is, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little
minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”

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