Accepted Truth Quotes

Conventional wisdom

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis.

There isn't anything you can expose Trump on that people don't already know and haven't already accepted.

The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

Not every obnoxious talk leads to progress, but we cannot tell which unusual idea, which seditious thought will be tomorrow's accepted truth and enshrined right ... after all, all that we take for granted, was once deemed extremely objectionable... So, not knowing where the next big step in the progress of human civilization will come from, we open our ears, our minds and our hearts to the new, the unusual and the contrarian.

Conventional wisdom would have one believe.