84 Quotes About Conventional-wisdom

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

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

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

Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.

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.

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

If you think you are a rebel in society - a nice relationship. Think about when your heart rebels against you when you are 3x older. A very similar thing in structure when a part rebels against the whole disrespecting the conventional state of things.

Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.

Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, and the soul escaped the blows which were directed against it and rose superior to the attempt; but such is not the course adopted by tyranny in democratic republics; there the body is left free, and the soul is enslaved.