Conventional Wisdom Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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