Quotes of: Conventional-wisdom Keyword

Follow the light of your intuition, and keep away from the darkness of convention.

Michael Bassey Johnson

I don't do that many appearances at conventions. I like to keep them special for me. And for the fans, I hope.

Anthony Daniels

No convention on God's foot-stool can, or has a right to, run me and make anything but a Democrat out of me.

Melville Fuller

Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.

Florence Griffith Joyner

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

Carla Gugino

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

Erich Fromm

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.

Bryan Singer

By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.

Carol Bellamy

Textbooks are not so much wrong as they are conventional – and an entrepreneurial idea must be contrarian.

Jim Manzi

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.

Marcus Buckingham

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

Adlai E. Stevenson

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

Dana Fox

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

Emanuel Celler

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.

Robert Dallek

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

Timothy West

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Ambrose Bierce

was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He seldom lost his poise; pondered his problems slowly, made his decisions clearly and firmly; never yielded to ostentation nor coyly refrain...

W.E.B. Du Bois

Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot... Where's all this stuff coming from? Is it any good? Any good in, you know, the wisdom sense? Who am I to spout this stuff anyway? Well, here's the thing. You too...

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Spanish

If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment - is a source of dismay. There is, indeed, a fire burning...

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World