It's useless, harmful, and the social arena is not a place to pursue truth.

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Section 38 of Counsels and Maxims (1851)

0:00 Correcting Others
1:44 Overhearing Fools
3:03 Social Life is Not About Truth

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Schopenhauer Text:
Never combat any man's opinion; for though you reached the age of Methuselah, you would never have done setting him right upon all the absurd things that he believes.

It is also well to avoid correcting people's mistakes in conversation, however good your intentions may be; for it is easy to offend people, and difficult, if not impossible, to mend them.

If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy. Probatum est.

The man who comes into the world with the notion that he is really going to instruct in matters of the highest importance, may thank his stars if he escapes with a whole skin.