Stop Being Reasonable Quotes

“When someone shows certain traits in their area of expertise – like attention to detail, or the capacity to weigh different sorts of value, or a detached and clinical gaze – it’s not completely ludicrous to imagine those traits might generalise. Many of us have been shaped and improved by precisely this way of trusting people.”
― Eleanor Gordon-Smith, Stop Being Reasonable

“Whatever the rules about when we can believe what we’re told, it’s hard to dispute that sometimes we can. Seen in the right light, there is something deeply moving about this: it means that we owe much of the vast progress of human enlightenment to the simple fact that we can talk to each other.”
― Eleanor Gordon-Smith, Stop Being Reasonable