I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s. — Elizabeth McGovern Copy Share Image
People should not feel intimidated by received wisdom. You have to discover it yourself. If I tell you that Armstrong is great,… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
“She did not know what she had expected from her Dante, but she definitely hadn’t received it. So with the wisdom that… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
I was pushing for a career in poetry and of course the received wisdom was that you would never make a living… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
“Mankind is fallible, so we should not rely on our own reasoning. We cannot help to understand the world - all we… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“Fats was starting to think that if you flipped every bit of received wisdom on its head you would have the truth.… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci did not take received wisdom - whether from ancient classical thinkers or medieval scholars or from the Bible -… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
