13 Quotes About Conventional Wisdom

What do you know? What are your beliefs? What do you think is right or wrong? These are the questions that should constantly be at the forefront of your mind. As humans, we are constantly searching for answers to these questions, but the answers are constantly shifting. We constantly reevaluate our points of view and knowledge base. The following all-purpose collection of conventional wisdom quotes will help guide you through your questioning, questioning, questioning phase.

Don’t accept any knowledge or conventional wisdom without critically questioning...
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Don’t accept any knowledge or conventional wisdom without critically questioning it first. Debasish Mridha
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When it comes to anniversaries, the publishing industry usually resembles distant relatives, readiest with gifts that are redundant or farcical. Anthony Paletta
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Insight is the deep intuitive understanding of things, and it often breaks through the conventional wisdom. Pearl Zhu
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Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age. Barbara W. Tuchman
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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. Unknown
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In the context of today, this WAS heroism. John Howard Griffin
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By our day, self-restraint was considered madness. Mark Sayers
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Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge. Rebecca Goldstein
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What is carved on rocks were away in time. What is told from mouth to mouth will live forever. Vietnamese Saying
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We need to be making disciples telling people about Jesus & move them beyond conversation into a heart relationship with Him in the fullness John M Sheehan
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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. John Kenneth Galbraith
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In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. Victor Hugo