Conventional Quotes

432 quotes by 394 authors

Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary… — Ron Paul
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. — Nick Clooney
I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude toward… — Noam Chomsky
Iâ€™ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that â€˜actors are great liars.â€™ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the… — Rob Lowe
Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, thereâ€™s a good chanceÂ you can find your nicheÂ by going in exactly… — Sam Walton
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. — Sam Walton
One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less… — David Halberstam
Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting,… — Norman Lamm
Iâ€™m not so sure that the conventional wisdom makes any sense. Yes, it might be technically easy to track people and all that. But in… — Rod Humble
Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and INFJ types, who… — Isabel Briggs Myers
Advocacy of leaf protein as a human food is based on the undisputed fact that forage crops (such as lucerne) give a greater yield of… — Norman Pirie
The material world is all feminine. The feminine engergy makes the non-manifest, manifest. So even men (are of the feminine energy). We have to relinquish… — Zeena Schreck
When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between… — Pier Paolo Pasolini
Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map… — Gabrielle Roth
My childhood was as conventional as you could get. — Lauren Groff
Impeachment is the direct constitutional means for removing a President, Vice President or other civil officers of the United States who has acted or threatened… — Ramsey Clark
The masses will not vote for their own upliftment in a higher order of society. This has to be accomplished without their support and request,… — Colin Jordan
A conventional â€˜successâ€™ story is one where, with each next, the protagonist has more money, more respect, and more possessions. Iâ€™d like to suggest an… — Po Bronson
At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message that marriage is… — Esther Perel
When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value . — Sun Bin

Who Wrote These Conventional Quotes

394 authors contributed a total of 432 Conventional Quotes, led by these top contributors: