Conventional Wisdom Quotes

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

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

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.