Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

Good thinking does not come in proportion to how imposing the thinker is. The loudest person in the meeting, the tallest name on the letterhead, the one with the most confident voice: none of that touches whether the argument holds. We keep confusing the two because scale is instantly visible and soundness is not, so the eye votes before the mind has read anything.

In the next discussion that matters, write down the actual claim and its reasons, separately from who said it. Judge it there, on paper, where the size of the speaker cannot be seen.