Round spectacles with one dark lens and one clear lens resting on a white saucer beside a dark cherry.

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Winston Churchill

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker calls it a great lesson to recognise that even people considered foolish can sometimes be right. The remark encourages humility about whom we dismiss. A person’s reputation or usual judgment does not, by itself, settle whether a particular statement they make is true.

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