Quotes of: Conventional-wisdom Keyword

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

Joseph Story

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Khalil Gibran

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Lord Byron

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

Mo Udall

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

Norman Douglas

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

Nigel Farage

Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.

Ram Dass

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

Robert Duvall

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

Rush Limbaugh

For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.

Sheri L. Dew

As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.

Sharon Salzberg

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

William Wordsworth

I believe _cosmopolitanism_ can be an effective discourse with which to advocate a politics of _transidentity_ of overlapping interests and heterogeneous or hybrid subjects in order to challenge conventional notions of exclusive belonging, identity a...

Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World

As with Jack, the discriminating milieu of loneliness moved Hugh to raise the stakes of solitude, not from a wish to spare himself the sapping drudgery of a conventional, passionless marriage, but rather to gamble on the existence of a just goddess. ...

Caxton

As long as they killed people with conventional rather than nuclear weapons, they were praised as humanitarian statesmen. As long as they did not use nuclear weapons, it appeared, nobody was going to give the right name to all the killing that had be...

Galápagos

The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadv...

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be sy...

Anarchism and Other Essays

It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new...

The Age Of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard To Be Happy

Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting the delaration of independence and only realized on July 3rd the Articles we...

America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

The impact of human intention on physical systems within as well as outside the body has been scientifically demonstrated and reveals a shortcoming of the conventional medical paradigm and highlights a strength of the energy medicine paradigm.

Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well

My father had a healthy disregard for social conventions: he once let me paint the house windows in rainbows with my watercolor set, to my mother's horror, and he'd clap for trees that he thought were doing a good job of exploding into red during the...

A Partial History of Lost Causes