Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
It's probably conventional wisdom now that you bring openness of markets only after the market has developed to a certain level. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Insight is the deep intuitive understanding of things, and it often breaks through the conventional wisdom.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“Knowing what your goal is—having that crystal clear—allows you to know when to follow conventional wisdom and when to say “Screw it.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
New ideas that fly in the face of conventional wisdom of the day are always greeted with doubt and scorn, even fear. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists. — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
“You have to remain critically vigilant.” Question every premise, challenge conventional wisdom, and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Whatever the term, misfit innovators inhabit a different world—a world that, by conventional wisdom, should have nothing to do with traditional businesses… — Alexa Clay Copy Share Image
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Well, what if the “other” party is wrong? What if conventional wisdom is too conservative? It’s this all-too-common impulse to complain, defer,… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
For too long, the conventional wisdom has rejected the use of tariffs as a tool of both economic and foreign policy. However,… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
The conventional wisdom of fandom is that you must give your fans anything they want. But I've never felt that that's a… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a… — Chris Robinson Copy Share Image
“In the end, what we believe to be true—our conventional wisdom—is really nothing more than sixty years of misconceived nutrition research. Before… — Nina Teicholz Copy Share Image
The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Watch what happens on Twitter. One thing leads to another very quickly. And in an ironic sense, even though it's such a… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
Active management strategies demand uninstitutional behavior from institutions, creating a paradox that few can unravel. Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
The author brings to the table a healthy skepticism of the conventional wisdom, an admirable ability to separate fact from fancy, and… — Alan Abelson Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
“Ferguson also takes a swipe at the conventional wisdom surrounding aspects of World War I. “The key to the Allies’ victory was… — Luke Williams Copy Share Image
“When I’m writing, I’m trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“It remains, as ever, an axiom of conventional wisdom that the use of propaganda as a means of social and ideological control… — Alex Carey Copy Share Image
“The other problem with empathy is that it is too parochial to serve as a force for a universal consideration of people’s… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The conventional wisdom in our business is that you have to grow and keep moving to survive. We never grew, always stayed… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
“No pain, no gain." You can hear the phrase in the world of physical exercise and conditioning. Muscles that feel no pain… — Robert Dykstra Copy Share Image
The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time to have… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
“It is conventional wisdom now that anything built by the government will be a disaster. But the two "Voyager" spacecraft were built… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“A memo to a higher office Open letter to the powers that be To a god, a king, a head of state… — Rush Copy Share Image
