Conventional wisdom Quotes

I reject most conventional wisdom.

— Rush Limbaugh

The conventional wisdom is often wrong.

— Anonymous

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

— Sam Walton

Conventional wisdom would have one believe...

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

“No one ever made more trouble than gentle Jesus meek and mild.”

— James Gillis

Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?

— Kevin Costner

“Creativity is about thinking beyond conventional wisdom.”

— Pearl Zhu

“Conventional wisdom is not always wrong—but it’s always suspect.”

— Brandon Webb

The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

— Ian Mckellen

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

— Ed Miliband

“What is carved on rocks were away in time. What is told from mouth to mouth will live forever.”

— Vietnamese

“If you challenge conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done. Bill James”

— Michael Lewis

“The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.”

— Pat Conroy

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

— Carly Fiorina

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

— Hyman Rickover

Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.

— Kevin Costner

Conventional wisdom is invariably out of date. Because in the time it has taken to become conventional - to become what everyone…

— Michael Crichton

It's really important, whether you're a conservative or a liberal, to always challenge the conventional wisdom, which is what I've tried to…

— Nina Easton

Up until Trump announced his candidacy, the conventional wisdom was that you had to be a professional politician in order to run.…

— Mark Cuban

Contrarian thinking at its best simply asks, Is this really true? It speaks up when the politically correct answer or the conventional…

— Larry Osborne

I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from…

— Steven Levitt

“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

“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

“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

Remember, the conventional wisdom is, "Yeah, you can do this like [Donald] Trump has done it during the primaries, buuuut once you…

— Rush Limbaugh

Even though my mom was talented and had a college degree, she lived in the era when the conventional wisdom in Dallas…

— Cecile Richards

“The reporter had to set his or her own course, had to push back against editors at times, to roam and be…

— Bob Woodward

I think polling is important because it gives a voice to the people. It gives a quantitative, independent assessment of what the…

— Andrew Kohut

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

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack,…

— Rick Perlstein

Congressman Steve King believed what Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi were saying, that Donald Trump had a agreed to a deal on…

— Rush Limbaugh

The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts…

— Larry Ellison

“The notion that communism and Nazism are polar opposites stems from the deeper truth that they are in fact kindred spirits. Or,…

— Jonah Goldberg

“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

“The obvious question is, what are the “conditions to which presumably we are genetically adapted”? As it turns out, what Donaldson assumed…

— Gary Taubes

“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

“If a man begins his sacrifice when the flames are luminous, and considers for the offerings the signs of heaven, then the…

— Juan Mascaró

“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

“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

The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time to have…

— Michael Steinhardt