Truth Quote by Stephen Fry — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.”

“Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.”

“Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.”

“There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the number of Asians in England, by the existance of a royal family, by the volume of traffic that passed by their house, by the malice of trade unions, by the power of callous employers, by the refusal of the health service to take their condition seriously, by communism, by capitalism, by atheism, by anything, in fact, but their own futile, weak-minded failure to get a fucking grip.”

““I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awoke me to the possibilities of language. His rhythms, tropes, tricks and mannerisms are deep within me.”

“Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.”

“Self-manipulation is our medication. Mythology is our drug. The only cure is honesty.”

“The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.”

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“For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will ve replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances.”

“Love and well wishes,” he tells me. “Stars and sunrise. Hopes and health. May truth walk with you.”