Conventional wisdom Quote by Steven D. Levitt

“Conventional wisdom in Galbraith's view must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting - though not necessarily true.”

— Steven D. Levitt

Conventional Wisdom is certainly not wisdom, and only is conventional because foolishness is so common today.

— Orrin Woodward

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this…

— Richard Marcinko

Conventional wisdom is invariably out of date. Because in the time it has taken to become conventional - to become what everyone believes -…

— Michael Crichton

“The problem with conventional wisdom is that it's generally lacking in nuance, an otherwise key component of life.”

— Anna Akbari

“I always admire people who have the courage to confront the conventional wisdom - I mean, people within the system. Those of us on…

— Bill James

Conventional wisdom would have one believe...

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

I reject most conventional wisdom.

— Rush Limbaugh

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

— Peter Jennings

Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?

— Kevin Costner

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

— Anonymous

“Wisdom is neither good nor bad, male nor female, Christian or pagan: she is no one's personal possession. The Goddess of Wisdom reaches down…

— Caitlín Matthews