Conventional Wisdom Quotes

68 Conventional Wisdom quotes by 63 unique authors

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
I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ 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, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite… — Sam Walton
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. — Sam Walton
I’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
Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney… — David Limbaugh
Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it… — Jim Rogers
Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy… — Seth Godin
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble… — Henry Petroski
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing… — Ben Horowitz
Never accept conventional wisdom when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them? — Ziad K. Abdelnour
It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is… — Adam Schiff
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom. — Ed Miliband
Conventional wisdom would have one believe... — Mumia Abu-Jamal
Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around… — Chip Conley
[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave… — Andrew Sullivan
In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone. — Ariel Gore
Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a… — Alastair Campbell
I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a lot… — Steven Levitt
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean,… — Jacqueline Carey
I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take… — Maria Bartiromo
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. — John Kenneth Galbraith
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom. — Carly Fiorina

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