Rush Limbaugh Quotes

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

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

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

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.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

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 always grew up with, 'Question authority.'

I wasn't overwhelmed by dogma, and that sort of freed me up to look at things differently.

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

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

It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.

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

Everything popular is wrong.

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

There was something punk rock about Bobby Kennedy not going where the pollsters said or where consultants said. He was unmoored from what was safe or easy.

Conventional wisdom is not always the best wisdom.

I don't want to be married to any ideology, because life is a lot more fluid than that, and I think that we're trained and conditioned in this country to think in teams.

I'm a total nonconformist; for me, it's about going down rabbit holes.

I haven't got a problem with sheeple calling me crazy. What's sane? What is crazy?

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Since I know how crazy this business is, I do the opposite of what I see other people doing.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.