Conventional Thinking Quotes

“Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.”
― Patrick Cockburn

“If you do not want an average life, you must be on guard against, and quietly suspicious of, conclusions made by conventional thinking.”
― Andy Andrews, The Noticer Returns: Sometimes You Find Perspective, and Sometimes Perspective Finds You

“The visionary is destined to walk in solitude.
If the vision is truly original;
If the vision is truly unprecedented;
Then by its very nature, only the visionary is privy to its wonders.
It is the burden of a single soul.
Alone.
For even the visionary must peel back, chisel and ax away at the status quo to eventually reveal for all humanity what is yet unseen and unheard of.
The visionary is the sculptor releasing the vision from the block of stone that is convention.”
― A.E. Samaan

“The greatest thing about our times is that you don't need permission to express yourself the way you wish. Sometimes people tell themselves they can't do it, because they're missing this or that, but historically, specialization is a recent convention. Most of us are born natural polymaths.”
― Nuno Roque

“For the people of her town—and she would guess the vast majority of humanity—observed the world not with their minds and imagination but solely with their eyes, which was a severe limitation.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“Most people prefer a problem they can't solve to a solution they don't like.”
― Lee Thayer

“...the whole trouble with [Julian] Hawthorne is his -conventional- mind. He cannot understand things that are not, but which might be, or ought to be.

[Jack London, in a letter from 1905]”
― Gary Scharnhorst, Julian Hawthorne: The Life of a Prodigal Son