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I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo EmersonmisattributedWind-Wafted Wild Flowers, by Muriel Strode, in The Open Court, Volume XVII, Number 567·August 1903

Wrongly attributed

Universally attributed to Emerson, and it is in none of his essays, journals or letters. It is Muriel Strode, an American writer almost nobody has heard of, in the August 1903 issue of The Open Court. The rewriting is the interesting part: Strode wrote a vow in the first person about herself, and the version that circulates has been turned into an instruction issued to somebody else. Do not go where the path may lead is not what she said. I will not follow is.

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If a man knows the wherefore of his existence, then the manner of it can take care of itself.
Viktor E. FranklmisattributedThe Twilight of the Idols, by Friedrich Nietzsche (trans. Anthony M. Ludovici)·1911

Wrongly attributed

Usually quoted as Frankl's own: he who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Frankl never claimed it. He quotes Nietzsche in Man's Search for Meaning, and the line is Nietzsche's, from Twilight of the Idols in 1888. The familiar English wording matches no published translation of the period; Ludovici's 1911 rendering is the one above.

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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
VoltairemisattributedThe Friends of Voltaire, by Evelyn Beatrice Hall·1906

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Voltaire never wrote this. Evelyn Beatrice Hall composed the sentence in 1906 to paraphrase his stance on Helvetius, writing under the pen name S. G. Tallentyre. She later confirmed it was her own phrasing, not a quotation.