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
“if you challenge the conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
We just don't subscribe to the conventional wisdom that you can't have an action series led by a female character. It's kinda… — Bryan Konietzko 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
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
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
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
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
The conventional wisdom with David Mamet is, you do not change a word. And that agrees with me. If you want to… — John C. McGinley 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
“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
“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
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
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
“THE BIG PIECE of secular conventional wisdom about Protestantism has been that it gave a self-righteous oomph to moneymaking and capitalism—hard work… — Kurt Andersen 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
“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
“When the topic of food comes up in conversation with family, friends or casual acquaintances, it’s fascinating to hear the litany of… — Mark Sisson 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
“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
“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
“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 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 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
“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
“White noise, impersonal roar. Deadening incandescence of the boarding terminals. But even these soul-free, sealed-off places are drenched with meaning, spangled and… — Donna Tartt 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
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
It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
“Conventional wisdom may not be wise. Good fortune and bad luck do not exist. Freedom of choice is predetermined. Don’t believe anything… — L. Anthony Copy Share Image
In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There was a period of 10 years where the conventional wisdom was Black shows don't sell overseas, therefore nobody is interested. — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
“The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn’t keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn’t win elections, and—surprise—drinking eight glasses of… — Steven D. Levitt 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
“In every southerner, beneath the veneer of clichés lies a much deeper motherlode of cliché. But even cliché is overlaid with enormous… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“I look at a Sensual Lifestyle like the entrepreneur's life. We are innovative, risk-taking, and constantly in conflict with convention. Ask me… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
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