Sweet Thames Quotes

“If I have learned anything from my summer of discoveries, it is that the more accepted and widespread a notion, the more fiercely it should be suspected. Beliefs have a dangerous habit of creating their own momentum, the momentum of mere fashion, until any who oppose them become the subject of humorous derision, revilement or worse. A truth that holds as well for small clans as for great nations. Readers, guard yourselves, I urge you, against that toxic slumber of unanimity. Seek instead that most dazzling of prizes, to see through the delusions of your own time.”
― Matthew Kneale, Sweet Thames