Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.