84 Quotes About Conventional-wisdom

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

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

You cannot crunch the numbers on a dream. Your biggest dreams defy conventional wisdom.

One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies.

Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.

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.

The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct. Anyone who attacks such ideas must seem to be a trifle self-confident and even aggressive. The man who makes his entry by leaning against an infirm door gets an unjustified reputation for violence. Something is to be attributed to the poor state of the door.

And that's just the beginning. More and more, conventional wisdom says that the responsible thing is to make the unemployed suffer. And while the benefits from inflicting pain are an illusion, the pain itself will be all too real.

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