Conventional Quotes

You ever want to know what consensus and groupthink and conventional wisdom in Washington is, just find what David "Rodham" Gergen is saying and you'll find out what 99% of 'em are thinking.

Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics.

Energy is the key to prosperity, to security. And until we [in US] start tapping our domestic, conventional and alternative sources to energy, we're never going to get there.

The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic

Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.

We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports.

An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.

I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

Don’t accept any knowledge or conventional wisdom without critically questioning it first.

I like uncovering the cultural prejudices I didn't even know.

[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

A lot of people here some South in your mouth, and they automatically think you're dumb. They think if you talk funny, you are funny. – Lloyd Hand

Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.

A written constitution is needed to protect values AGAINST prevailing wisdom.

When it comes to anniversaries, the publishing industry usually resembles distant relatives, readiest with gifts that are redundant or farcical.

Insight is the deep intuitive understanding of things, and it often breaks through the conventional wisdom.

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.

Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.

When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.

Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty

A bad song you can't forget is called an earworm. The way to get rid of an earworm is to deliberately remember an equally awful song.

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

By our day, self-restraint was considered madness.

He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.

I find myself constantly taking apart be taken-for-granted.

Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.

What is carved on rocks were away in time. What is told from mouth to mouth will live forever.

The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right.

In every southerner, beneath the veneer of clichés lies a much deeper motherlode of cliché. But even cliché is overlaid with enormous power when a child is involved.

When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, "one that expects no liberation from liberation.

It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.

That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.

It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.

One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.

We need to be making disciples telling people about Jesus & move them beyond conversation into a heart relationship with Him in the fullness

The usefulness of a man or woman of God relies on the ability to remain distinct.

No one ever made more trouble than gentle Jesus meek and mild.

NEVER accept "conventional wisdom" when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them?

I find, the fancier the fashion magazine is, the worse the Photoshop. It’s as if they are already so disgusted that a human has to be in the clothes, they can’t stop erasing human features.

That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological understanding, the more we conceal them.

Conventional wisdom is not always the best wisdom.