Stephen Fry Quotes

Doubt your doubts before you doubt your beliefs.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

I know friends of mine who have never changed their mind about anything in their lives, despite evidence from all directions. And I think if you can keep an open mind and some understanding, that helps you stay young.

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model. Everyone's condition is different, and the way that each person lives his or her life is different. What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.

The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.

The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready-made opinions into his head.

Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?

I change my opinions often, but not my way of thinking.

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

I try not to be overly analytical.

I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.

I've always been really opinionated, and mixed with being really open hearted, open to people shifting what I think all the time, but I like to speak with conviction.

Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in.

People learn the most about themselves by confronting those with whom they deeply disagree..

The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not too sure that it is right