“Working together, journalists and experts are the architects of much conventional wisdom.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contrarian thinking at its best simply asks, Is this really true? It speaks up when the politically correct answer or the conventional… — Larry Osborne Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom is invariably out of date. Because in the time it has taken to become conventional - to become what everyone… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Highly successful leaders ignore conventional wisdom and take chances. Their stories inevitably include a defining moment or key decision when they took… — Larry Osborne Copy Share Image
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional… — Aubrey de Grey 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 else… — Friedrich Haller Copy Share Image
“If you're careful to listen to your instincts and question conventional wisdom, set priorities, and make thoughtful choices, eventually you will figure… — Arlene Dickinson Copy Share Image
“It is worth remembering one of the important lessons of the Buck story: a small number of zealous advocates can have an… — Paul A. Lombardo Copy Share Image
The world is always changed by people who don't listen to conventional wisdom. I think we often set our goals too small… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism,… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
“And I keep thinking too of the more conventional wisdom: namely, that the pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Something is indeed returning today - but the conventional wisdom that this is religion making its reappearance is insufficient to satisfy critical… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
If you are the kind of person who listens to conservative advice, you may do okay in life, but you probably won't… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
The intricate and different life cycles of both male and female root-heads, and the great behavioral sophistication shown by the female in… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“The freedom of new thinking unshackles our minds from constraints, conventional wisdom, and established norms and spurs us to challenge existing concepts.("The… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've… — Sarah Ferguson Copy Share Image
“My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but… — Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“My doctor says that, contrary to conventional wisdom, she doesn't believe our memories flag because of a drop in estrogen but because… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Conservatives have welcomed Trump's attacks on the establishment, have cheered his boldness, and have applauded his courage. He has taken on hitherto… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion.… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I think the conventional wisdom is vastly true. There will be a huge growth in mobile, and this is something we are… — Maurice Levy Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is "continuous", and that discrete models are necessary evils… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
In the beginning, Adam — not Eve— was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
“The Affluent Society not only changed the way the country viewed itself, but gave new phrases to the language: Conventional wisdom, the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small… — Vann Chow Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load… — Richard Koch Copy Share Image
You ever want to know what consensus and groupthink and conventional wisdom in Washington is, just find what David "Rodham" Gergen is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think the conventional wisdom in the game is that Daniel Sturridge is a troubled, problem player. He's a very, very, very… — Simon Jordan Copy Share Image
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
Managers who assume that higher profits drive better working conditions may have their logic backwards. Contrary to conventional wisdom, our research identified… — James O'Toole Copy Share Image
Contrary to the conventional wisdom in the West, Moscow did not invade Ukraine to conquer it and make it part of a… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
