"From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts."

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The theme of truth is universal, yet Tom Stoppard manages to capture its essence in a uniquely profound way. Taking a moment to internalize this can shift our mindset, reminding us that our perspective on truth often shapes our reality.

About Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard was a British playwright and screenwriter. He wrote for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covered the themes of human rights, censorship, and political freedom, often delving into the deeper philosophical bases of society. Stoppard, a playwright of the Royal National Theatre, was one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation and was critically compared with William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw. He was knighted for his contribution to theatre in 1997 and awarded the Order of Merit in 2000.

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"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."

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"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."

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"I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future."

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"It is a enduring truth that the moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain."

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"True authority is measured not by subjugation, but by the empowerment of others. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

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"To live with purpose is to leave the world a little gentler than you found it. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

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