Conventional wisdom is the body of ideas or explanations generally accepted as true by the public or by experts in a field. Such ideas or explanations, though widely held, are unexamined. Unqualified societal discourse preserves the status quo.
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Famous quotes containing the words conventional wisdom, conventional and/or wisdom:
“Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a mans life if he has the weight and cares about the words.”
—Archibald MacLeish (18921982)
“First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental content or concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.”
—William of Occam (c. 12851349)
“I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, saidand did not say.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)