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I reject most conventional wisdom.
The conventional wisdom is often wrong.
Conventional wisdom would have one believe.
Conventional wisdom is not always the best wisdom.
Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.
Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?
Challenge conventional wisdom. There is almost always a better way.
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.
One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom.
I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.
If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
The conventional wisdom in an election year is that nothing will get done until after the election.
The so-called oligarchs have always had less influence than conventional wisdom attributed to them.
The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
New ideas that fly in the face of conventional wisdom of the day are always greeted with doubt and scorn, even fear.
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.
No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
It's probably conventional wisdom now that you bring openness of markets only after the market has developed to a certain level.
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.
There was a period of 10 years where the conventional wisdom was Black shows don't sell overseas, therefore nobody is interested.
I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
I think the conventional wisdom is vastly true. There will be a huge growth in mobile, and this is something we are witnessing every day.
We just don't subscribe to the conventional wisdom that you can't have an action series led by a female character. It's kinda nonsense to us.
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.
It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!
It's really important, whether you're a conservative or a liberal, to always challenge the conventional wisdom, which is what I've tried to do in all my work.
The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.
Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages.
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.
Until there are tangible metrics for quantifying the real value of a token's utility, the gap between value and valuation will continue to defy conventional wisdom and conventional valuation methods.
Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.