The quote, "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us" has been attributed to well-known people like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. But according to a researcher -- who goes by the nom de plume Garson O'Toole -- of quotes that go viral on the Internet, none of these people said any such thing. Instead, it first appeared in 1940, in a book called Meditations in Wall Street . And initially, the book was anonymous — a person named Albert J Nock wrote it, says O'Toole.
In an interview with VICE , O'Toole talks about whether authorship really makes a difference or not, and more. "You'd think, 'How can thousands of people be wrong?'. But it turns out that they are," he says in this interview . Click to read more.