Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were—that is, our genes. It depended on the decisions we made—on what we chose to eat, and how much we chose to exercise, and how effectively we we...
People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of the tribal structures that sustain them, reinforce with their tales the conventional notions...
This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.
When people say the word "convention," they are usually referring to large gatherings of the employees of companies and corporations who attend a mass assembly, usually in a big hotel somewhere, for the purpose of pretending to learn stuff when they ...
Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
That is good wisdom which is wisdom in the end.
I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.
I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so. In moments like this, I can feel your hea...
I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for the Presidency, made up chiefly of editors, and men who are politicians by profession; but I think, what is it to any independent, intellegent, and res...
From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.
If I have any expertise, it is in the realm of spiritual darkness: fear of the unknown, familiarity with divine absence, mistrust of conventional wisdom, suspicion of religious comforters, keen awareness of the limits of all language about God and at...
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom.
Once I had the strength but no wisdom; now I have the wisdom but no strength.
As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.
I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that.
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
You look at women at the Republican convention and women at the Democratic convention. Republicans have a certain aesthetic beauty that involves more makeup, bigger hair, more lurid outfits.
