Quotes of: Conventional-wisdom Keyword

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

Euripides

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Felix Frankfurter

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Franz Grillparzer

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

Harry Dean Stanton

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

James Buchan

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Julia Ward Howe

No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course.

Jonathan Schell

I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.

Mary J. Blige

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Paul Greengrass

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Samuel Johnson

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

William Blake

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

William Hazlitt

Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space. All the rest of our years we are slaves to someth...

Emily Climbs

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled ...

Going Steady: Film Writings, 1968-1969

When you remove love from sex you enter a mansion with many rooms shaded in nuance and excess, an invitation to peel away all conventions and programming. A chance to explore your hidden self. You shed something and clothe yourself in something else....

Girl Trade

Brave out-of-the-box thinkers are transforming and renewing the conventional practice of dentistry. While most of their work is still not mainstream, these dentists and medical doctors have paved the way to healthy, nontoxic dentistry.

Holistic Dental Care: The Complete Guide to Healthy Teeth and Gums

A blanket could be used to make people smile. But the blanket won’t make just anyone smile—it will make people with no mouths smile. I plan on showing a live audience how it works at the next Helen Keller Convention. 


Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our neighbors. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same meaning for them as f...

Collected Short Stories: Volume 1

Blogging, writing conventional articles, and being science consultant and pocket protector ninja to various web portals and TV programs, quite often trying to promote the penicillin of hard data to people who had no interest in being cured of their i...

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2012 December

Inevitably it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes an authority or established convention': a . ...And if enough people come to agree with—and follow—the , we now have a . Until, of course, still mo...

Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation