84 Quotes About Conventional-wisdom

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.

That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.

Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.

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

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

A good therapy helps you develop a sense of irony about your life so that when you start to repeat old and unhelpful patterns, something within you says, "There you go again; let's call this to a halt. You can do something different." Often the first step toward doing something different is developing the capacity to not act, to stay still and reflect.

Forming culture is not a one-time event.

One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.

Harry S Truman despised settled conventions.