To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
English translation: Constance Garnett
Individuality
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
English translation: Constance Garnett
Crime and Punishment, Part III, Chapter I.
English translation by Constance Garnett. Historical translation reproduced in the linked source.
Razumihin speaks about independent thought and error.