Tom Stoppard Quotes

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Light is the symbol of truth.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

What I care about is maximum information.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

I like to open people's eyes.

Light itself is a revelation.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind.

Truths kindle light for truths.

My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.