Daily Inspiration Quote by David Ogden Stiers

There’s a quietly radical faith baked into this line: the idea that truth doesn’t need to shout. “If it’s right and true” suggests an almost old-school confidence in moral clarity, as if correctness carries its own kind of authority. Then Stiers pivots to the verbs that matter: “listened to” and “accommodated.” Not celebrated, not rewarded, not even agreed with. Just granted space. That’s a modest bar, and it’s telling.

As an actor, Stiers spent a career translating other people’s words into something that lands. He understood that being “right” isn’t the same as being heard; reception is a social act, not a meritocracy. The quote reads like a reassurance and a diagnosis at once: if an idea is truly sound, it will eventually find its audience and alter the room. But it also smuggles in a standard for institutions and relationships: the measure of decency isn’t whether you instantly convert, it’s whether you can accommodate a truth that disrupts your preferences.

The subtext is generational and professional: in rehearsal halls, on sets, in writers’ rooms, the best note is the one people actually take. Stiers isn’t romanticizing conflict; he’s arguing for adult attention. At a cultural moment where “being right” often means winning the exchange, this line insists on a different endpoint: not victory, but adjustment. Truth, in his framing, is supposed to change behavior, not just score points. That’s both hopeful and a little pointed, because it implies that when the true thing isn’t being accommodated, the problem isn’t the truth. It’s the listeners.