16. Remember that to change your opinion and to follow him who corrects your error is as consistent with freedom as it is to persist in your error.
For it is your own, the activity which is exerted according to your own movement and judgement, and indeed according to your own understanding too.
Book: Meditations
Subtitle: The classic from Marcus Aurelius.
Author: Marcus Aurelius
Chapter: Book Eight
Chapter Subtitle: This reflection also tends to the removal of the desire of empty fame, that it is no longer in your power to have lived the whole of your life, or at least your life from your youth upwards, like a philosopher; but both to many others and to yourself it is plain that you art far from philosophy.
Location: Chapter 8, Section 16
Content:
16. Remember that to change your opinion and to follow him who corrects your error is as consistent with freedom as it is to persist in your error.
For it is your own, the activity which is exerted according to your own movement and judgement, and indeed according to your own understanding too.