Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
“It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche 655
German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900Related quotes
In Search of the Miraculous (1949), Ch. 10. p. 203

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“One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.”
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