Challenge conventional wisdom. There is almost always a better way. — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists. — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
The conventional wisdom in an election year is that nothing will get done until after the election. — Christine Todd Whitman Copy Share Image
“The problem with conventional wisdom is that it's generally lacking in nuance, an otherwise key component of life.” — Anna Akbari 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 on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax;… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never,… — Anthony Bourdain 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
A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
The problem in our society is the ego psychology and conventional wisdom about "look out for #1." That conventional wisdom thinks that… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was… — Marc Andreessen 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
“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
History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack,… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Well, I think it's just remarkable how wrong the conventional wisdom was. It was utterly shocking that Donald Trump won to people… — James Vance Copy Share Image
“When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in… — Hilary Austen Copy Share Image
Congressman Steve King believed what Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi were saying, that Donald Trump had a agreed to a deal on… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
Remember, the conventional wisdom is, "Yeah, you can do this like [Donald] Trump has done it during the primaries, buuuut once you… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think polling is important because it gives a voice to the people. It gives a quantitative, independent assessment of what the… — Andrew Kohut 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 Chinese ideograph for forbearance is a heart with a sword dangling over it, another instance of language's brilliant way of showing… — Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
“The obvious question is, what are the “conditions to which presumably we are genetically adapted”? As it turns out, what Donaldson assumed… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“The notion that communism and Nazism are polar opposites stems from the deeper truth that they are in fact kindred spirits. Or,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise? The biggest one is that international audiences won’t see… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“If a man begins his sacrifice when the flames are luminous, and considers for the offerings the signs of heaven, then the… — Juan Mascaró Copy Share Image
“If you ever hear the words conventional and wisdom conjoined, reject them. Because if it is conventional, it isn’t wisdom. And if… — Sean Iddings 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
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment — Steve Albini Copy Share Image