Seeing this quote on a poster tacked to a wall in High School somewhere gave me an interest in Camus. I'm glad I ended up reading him even if the quote didn't come from him until 1971 years after he died.
> Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/08/23/friend/
#AttributionIssues #AlbertCamus #WalkBesideMe #QuoteInvestigator
I think the reason why #GoogleSuggestedQuestions falsely attributes this line to #Gandhi is because the information is from the #BritishMedicalJournal and #Google thinks the BMJ is trustworthy but the search engine can't compute that the journal is an authority on medicine, not #quotes. Google also fails to differentiate between opinion and #PeerReview.
Google should "know" that #WikiQuote and #QuoteInvestigator are much better at this.
Like the @neilhimself quote:
Oh, great.
The Boss just posted an inspirational New Year’s message with »›The best way to predict the future is to create it.‹ Mark Twain«.
#MarkTwain isn’t even on the list of people that didn’t (!) say it at Quote Investigator.
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde #attributednosource #beyourself #gilbertperreira #honesty #inspirational #misattributedoscarwilde #quoteinvestigator
https://www.shortwisdomquotes.com/oscar-wildes-quote-about-inspirational/
So true.
"(1) Every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.
(2) Every moment you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of joy.
[...]
None of the early instances found by QI [Quote Investigator] provided an ascription. Thus, the originator remains anonymous."
@Dianora There's no evidence that Twain ever said this, which should be taken as he did not say it until proven otherwise. The lack of evidence is confirmed by:
#Snopes:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/did-mark-twain-say-its-easier-to-fool-people-than-to-convince-them-that-they-have-been-fooled/
Quote investigator:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/12/23/fooled/
And most importantly by the Mark Twain Project, as cited by Snopes.
There are so many fake or misattributed #quotes floating around the web, a cottage industry of websites generating #memes like this one in fact. It's only going to get worse with these damn #AI #chatbots generating more garbage. #garbageingarbageout #quoteinvestigator
While the quote "it's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled" is often attributed to Mark Twain, there's no evidence that the author actually wrote or spoke this phrase.
Tracing the history of this interesting quotation: "It Is Quite As Important To Know What Kind of a Patient the Disease Has Got As To Know What Kind of a Disease the Patient Has Got"
Evidence there was a time traveller from the present in 1969! :-) An eerily accurate quote about reading ebooks on the phone.
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