“If you challenge conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done. Bill James” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom. — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom. — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
“What is carved on rocks were away in time. What is told from mouth to mouth will live forever.” — Vietnamese Copy Share Image
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“By the time we reach adulthood we are so full of conventional wisdom, preconceived notions, and filters and limitations of various kinds… — Erland Bakke Copy Share Image
“When the conventional wisdom of physics seemed to conflict with an elegant theory of his, Einstein was inclined to question that wisdom… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins Copy Share Image
Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller,… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“So the conventional wisdom in Galbraith’s view must be simple, convenient, comfortable, and comforting—though not necessarily true. It would be silly to… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
“Criticizing and rejecting ideas and knowledge deemed to be true—inverting conventional wisdom—is more valuable at Honda than repeated success using the same… — Jeffrey Rothfeder Copy Share Image
“The first rule of a successful parasite? Myxoma’s success in Australia suggests something different from that nugget of conventional wisdom I mentioned… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I think conventional wisdom is that time is not on our side. But there are a number of members of Congress who… — John McCain 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
Even though my mom was talented and had a college degree, she lived in the era when the conventional wisdom in Dallas… — Cecile Richards Copy Share Image
“The reporter had to set his or her own course, had to push back against editors at times, to roam and be… — Bob Woodward 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
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
“A successful special operation defies conventional wisdom by using a small force to defeat a much larger or well-entrenched opponent. This book… — William H. McRaven Copy Share Image
“Why was it not good for man to be alone? If it were only man's loneliness with which God was concerned, he… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“I always admire people who have the courage to confront the conventional wisdom - I mean, people within the system. Those of… — Bill James Copy Share Image
“the people who are best at telling jokes tend to have more health problems than the people laughing at them. A study… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the most frustrating aspects of the Vietnam war from the Army's point of view is that as far as logistics… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At the same time that “self-made” entered the nation’s lexicon, so did the notion of abject failure. Once reserved to describe a… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
“The popular media and conventional wisdom, including the medical profession's traditional approach to nutrition, have created and continue to perpetuate this problem… — Ron Hoggan Copy Share Image
I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk… — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional. — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more. — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom. — Eli Broad 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 get to the general, it's not about national votes. It's about states! It's about swing states. It's about battleground states. And you've gotta have targeted…” quote by Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/54d/rush-limbaugh-28_ads_remember-the-conventional-wisdom-is-yeah_1892347.jpg)
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