Conventional Quotations

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

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.

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.

My childhood was as conventional as you could get.

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy.

One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.

I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.

Anyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional.

Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?

Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.

Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.

You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

I've always wanted to lead an ordered, relatively conventional and private life.

I have some problems with conventional organized religion.

Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.

I lead a very conventional life.

Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?

I reject most conventional wisdom.

The conventional wisdom is often wrong.

An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.

It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.

One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom.

Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.