To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
Razumihin (character in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment)
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Crime and Punishment, Part III, Chapter I; translated by Constance Garnett; Razumihin’s dialogue defending independent thought and the willingness to make one’s own mistakes. Speaker and translation checked in original chapter; not presented as Dostoevsky’s personal statement.
- Crime and Punishment, Part III, Chapter I; translated by Constance Garnett
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