Conventional Wisdom Quotes

68 Conventional Wisdom quotes by 63 unique authors

I reject most conventional wisdom. — Rush Limbaugh
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And… — Tom Peters
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it. — Anna Quindlen
Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. — Christopher Reeve
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments… — Paul Ryan
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. — Joseph Stiglitz
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never… — Bob Woodward
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50… — Michael Eric Dyson
Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science… — Carl Sagan
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come… — Freeman Dyson
The conventional wisdom is often wrong. — Steven Levitt
Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that… — Judith Lynne Hanna
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a… — Aubrey de Grey
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional. — Therese Fowler
The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie. — Ian Mckellen
For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core. A take-charge kind of guy… — Ruth Glick
I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it. — Peter Jennings
Conventional Wisdom is certainly not wisdom, and only is conventional because foolishness is so common today. — Orrin Woodward

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