Eleanor Gordon-Smith > Quotes

“Lines can be the etchings of your biggest smiles, the frowns you learned from, the proof that you change and grow.”
― Eleanor Gordon-Smith

“Focus on the parts of yourself that will not diminish with time – humour and wisdom are not like collagen. You will make more of them as you age.”
― Eleanor Gordon-Smith

“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

“Remember that our default ways of seeing are not natural or necessary. Any statue in any gallery testifies that we did not always think lean teens were the peak of beauty. Seeing is tangled up with belief; don’t let either be handed to you by juvenile men in boardrooms who want to take your money.”
― Eleanor Gordon-Smith

“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