Dana Carvey Quotes

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 was brought up to question authority, and thank God for that.

I reject most conventional wisdom.

My dad instilled in me to naturally question all authority. I don't follow anything blindly. That's religion, cops, doctors, schools, you name it.

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

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

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

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.

Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's 'supposed' to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Think for yourself and question authority.

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

Conventional wisdom is not always the best 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.

Question everything generally thought to be obvious.

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

Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.

Don't listen to experts.

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

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.

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

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