Doug Ducey Quotes

It's really important, whether you're a conservative or a liberal, to always challenge the conventional wisdom, which is what I've tried to do in all my work.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

I don't think we ought to base our policy on what the conventional wisdom is.... The conventional wisdom usually is wrong.

I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.

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

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

I always grew up with, 'Question authority.'

I reject most conventional wisdom.

I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude toward anything that is conventional wisdom. Make it justify itself. It usually can't. Be willing to ask questions about what is taken for granted. Try to think things through for yourself.

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere.

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

The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.

To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.

What might we learn from lines of research that are off the beaten track? They check accepted ideas, always a good thing, and there is the chance nature has prepared yet another surprise for us.

Question everything, even if it represents generations of conventional wisdom.