Challenge conventional wisdom. There is almost always a better way. — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom. — Anonymous 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
Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation. — Marshall McLuhan 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
“The problem with conventional wisdom is that it's generally lacking in nuance, an otherwise key component of life.” — Anna Akbari 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
Question everything, even if it represents generations of conventional wisdom. — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
“Conventional wisdom in Galbraith's view must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting - though not necessarily true.” — Steven D. Levitt 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
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
“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
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
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
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
In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional… — Ezra Taft Benson 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
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
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
“It has become conventional wisdom that America suffers from an unbridgeable gap between red and blue states, two separate political cultures that… — Hamilton Nolan 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
Whether you are buying a car or casting a ballot, choosing a job or planning a family, follow your moral compass. Don't… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
“I look at the blanked-out faces of the other passengers--hoisting their briefcases, their backpacks, shuffling to disembark--and I think of what Hobie… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
In a corporate context, companies have to try very hard to oppose the enticements of conventional wisdom. They must aim for the… — John Kao 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
“It is hard to find many better examples of values-first leadership than Ventura, California-based outdoor clothing company Patagonia. For more than 30… — Brian de Haaff 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
“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
“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
I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it. — Peter Jennings Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone. — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
