Tom Stoppard Quotes

I'm on the sockless and un-sockless teams. I'm on both sides.

A liberal is someone who is so open-minded that he won’t even take his own side in an argument.

You learn not to get attached to one side .... You take both sides.

I wish at all events to retain at all times a judicial habit of not condemning a thing utterly until I have heard what is to be said for it.

The only strong opinion that I have about myself is that I don't have any opinions.

I try to play each ball on its merit.

Professionally and personally, I try to be as agnostic as possible, try to see things as objectively as possible.

It doesn't matter which court I'm on.

I try to keep an open mind.

I'm not against Twitter or Facebook. I'm not against anything. Never say never.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

I don't really have that many judgements on things, or crazy statements that I feel like I have to put across.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

I don't mind what I play, really.

Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk, you spoil the whole game.

Gray means being open-minded. I always look at the world that way; I'm able to hear both sides of an argument. I don't listen to opera, but I don't think it's good or bad; it's just its own thing. I can completely appreciate it.

I'm not dogmatic.

Have a mind that's open to everything, get attached to nothing.

It's much easier to work with an unknown.

Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to write a certain kind of book. Sometimes that's hard.

You've got to keep an open mind.