Conventional Quotes

The conventional wisdom is often wrong.

Conventional wisdom would have one believe.

One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.

The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.

Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?

I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.

One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom.

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

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

I've always wanted to lead an ordered, relatively conventional and private life.

Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.

Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.

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

I reject most conventional wisdom.

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

I refuse to live a conventional life.

I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.

No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.

I lead a very conventional life.

It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.

My childhood was as conventional as you could get.

You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.

I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy.

There are no conventional games involving conditions of uncertainty without risk.

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

I have some problems with conventional organized religion.

Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.

Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?

Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.

The most conventional statements are both true and welcome.

Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.