“I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.”
— Terry Goodkind, book Soul of the Fire
Source: Soul of the Fire
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