“Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.”

— George Saintsbury

Source: A Last Vintage, p. 172.

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George Saintsbury 14

British literary critic 1845–1933

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

“You must never feel badly about making mistakes… as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

“It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority’s falsehood as truth, could be fatal.”

Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian psychiatrist

Source: The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct

“There are many ways of being wrong, but only one way of being right.”

Susan Stebbing (1885–1943) British philosopher

As quoted in Thinking to Some Purpose (1939), p. 153

“The minority is always in the right. The majority is always in the wrong.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Attributed to Twain, but never sourced. Suspiciously close to "A minority may be right, and the majority is always in the wrong." — Henrik Ibsen "Enemy of the People," as well as a famous quote from Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard
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