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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
— Ed Miliband
I find myself constantly taking apart be taken-for-granted.
— Rebekah Nathan
It seems to be most leaders have more conventional wisdom, but creative leaders have better common sense.
— Pearl Zhu
I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.
— Timothy White
One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.
— Harold Holzer
That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.
— Anna Quindlen
Jefferson attributes to a college professor and mentor his lifelong habit of questioning conventional wisdom.
— John Ferling
Conventional wisdom in Galbraith's view must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting - though not necessarily true.
— Steven D. Levitt
The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
A union of the States is a union of the men composing them, from whence a national character result to the whole,
— Rufus King
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[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.
— Paul Krugman
Conventional wisdom tells us not to dwell in the past. I believe, however, that we should hold hands with it.
— Dana Glossbrenner
He kept himself in line with popular opinion, which meant popular prejudice.
— John Howard Griffin
Understanding the power of the underdog requires an effort. It requires standing up to conventional wisdom.
— Malcolm Gladwell
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
— Jonathan Swift
I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.
— Maria Bartiromo
A trend was a trend only because people thought it so. And in thinking it so, they made it so.
— Tom Clancy
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
— Joseph Stiglitz
In the context of today, this WAS heroism.
— John Howard Griffin
I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true
— Freeman Dyson
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
— Carly Fiorina
Nations, like people, are often more pragmatic than they know or can explain.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
— Steven D. Levitt
If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
— Pankaj Mishra
Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
— Christopher Reeve
By our day, self-restraint was considered madness.
— Mark Sayers
Seriously bad ideas (are) bad ideas which appeal to the prejudices of serious people.
— Paul Krugman
The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Harry S Truman despised settled conventions.
— David Pietrusza
He was a trifle embarrassed to be deserting his hard-won realism in order to follow what he thought was the dominant philosophical fashion.
— Philip Zaleski
Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.
— Jeffrey Toobin
Conventional wisdom is that you should find a job that matches your passion. I think this is backwards.
— Seth Godin
Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of the nation; manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Don't accept any knowledge or conventional wisdom without critically questioning it first.
— Debasish Mridha
The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
— Ian McKellen
If you challenge conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done.Bill James — Michael Lewis
It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.
— David Brooks
Conventional Wisdom is certainly not wisdom, and only is conventional because foolishness is so common today.
— Orrin Woodward
The author concedes that humanity had the fatal tendency to shape truth to our beliefs rather than beliefs to the Truth.
— Frank Turek
An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory intoconventional wisdom. — Steven D. Levitt
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
— Arianna Huffington
When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.
— Mayim Bialik
Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.
— Harold Bloom
He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.
— Stephen Crane
Conventional wisdom won't provide continual growth.
— Jason Jennings
Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.
— Harold Bloom
All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.
— Hyman Rickover
It's OK to not be fine.
— Frasier Crane
Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty
— John Howard Griffin
The beaten path can be a busy and distracting place.
— Richard Brookhiser
Insight is the deep intuitive understanding of things, and it often breaks through the conventional wisdom.
— Pearl Zhu
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.
— Therese Fowler
if you challenge the conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done.
— Michael Lewis
I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.
— Arthur Eddington
A whole nation cannot rise above itself.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
— Anna Quindlen
Forming culture is not a one-time event.
— Matt Chandler
New ideas can be supremely bad ideas, and by the time people realize how bad they are, it is sometimes difficult to get rid of them.
— Alister E. McGrath
The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.
— Rebecca Goldstein
Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.
— Pat Conroy
Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice.
— Edith Hamilton
Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Peter Drucker
— Matt Chandler
That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological understanding, the more we conceal them.
— Steven Johnson
If you had the guts to serve your country like the rest of us, you wouldn't have to work so hard to prove you're crazy.
— M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team
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.
— Matt Chandler
NEVER accept "conventional wisdom" when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them?
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Challenge conventional wisdom. There is almost always a better way.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
— Ariel Gore
Preconceived, fixed notions can be more damaging than cannon.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.
— George F. Will
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
— Nick Clooney
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
— John Kenneth Galbraith