There's nothing wrong with celebrating the good things in our past. But memories, like witnesses, do not always tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. We need to cross-examine them, recognizing and accepting the inconsistencies and gaps in those that make us proud and happy as well as those that cause us pain.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

The further left you are, the more your concern for the underdog crowds out everything else, leading you to overlook inconsistencies. You might, for example, argue for immigration and multiculturalism in the UK, but not in the Amazon. You might demand equality before the law and, at the same time, gender quotas.

Like the British Constitution she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.