Conventions Quote by George Santayana

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

— George Santayana

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage…

— Steven Pinker

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

— Hedy Lamarr

I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

— George Takei

“As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.”

— Steve Krug

Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.

— Jane Rule

No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

— Thornton Wilder

You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You…

— Lev Grossman

You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.

— James Frey

A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

— Murray Kempton