Accepting Quote by Ziad K. Abdelnour

Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because…

— Jim Rogers

Challenge conventional wisdom. There is almost always a better way.

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“...Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to yearn, far…

— Martha Beck

I don't care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, 'How come I didn't try?'

— Tony Fernandes

In a corporate context, companies have to try very hard to oppose the enticements of conventional wisdom. They must aim for the leaps, which…

— John Kao

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

— Mayim Bialik

“Conventional wisdom is not always wrong—but it’s always suspect.”

— Brandon Webb

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

— Ariel Gore

The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

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…

— Paul Ryan

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an…

— Henry Petroski

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…

— Michael Eric Dyson