Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation. — Marshall McLuhan 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
“Insight is the deep intuitive understanding of things, and it often breaks through the conventional wisdom.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
New ideas that fly in the face of conventional wisdom of the day are always greeted with doubt and scorn, even fear. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
“Knowing what your goal is—having that crystal clear—allows you to know when to follow conventional wisdom and when to say “Screw it.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom. — Arthur Eddington 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
“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
“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
Screening out peer pressure and conventional wisdom. It is so powerful, that most of us aren't even aware of how much it… — Robert S. Kaplan Copy Share Image
It's become glib political conventional wisdom in Washington that a massive spending plan will provide a parachute rescue for a cliff-diving economy… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
When you find errors in conventional wisdom-when everyone says A and A is not true-you gain competitive advantage. Only a few times… — Larry Ellison 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
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
Active management strategies demand uninstitutional behavior from institutions, creating a paradox that few can unravel. Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile… — David F. Swensen 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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system is the only possible one—the first reaction you are… — David Graeber 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
“The witch-hunt narrative is a really popular story that goes like this: Lots of people were falsely convicted of child sexual abuse… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
“The witch-hunt narrative is now the conventional wisdom about these cases. That view is so widely endorsed and firmly entrenched that so… — Ross Cheit 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
“It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will to doubt can… — Alain de Botton 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
“One of the greatest glories of growing older is the willingness to ask why and, getting no good answer, deciding to follow… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The conventional wisdom says that societies seem more civilized than they actually are.” — Dr. Ashok Anand Copy Share Image
“Working together, journalists and experts are the architects of much conventional wisdom.” — Anonymous 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
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
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
