Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

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.

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

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom it leaves you open to learn more.

Never accept ultimatums conventional wisdom or absolutes.

Economists often like startling theorems results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

To build a great company which is a CEO's job sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

Around '93 '94 the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very very underestimated for about two years.