Tom Stoppard Quotes

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.

Life is full of borders. Some of them, once crossed, can never be crossed again in the other direction. But there are new countries to discover across every one.

If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won't do what you've done before.

Think you've seen it all? Think again. Outside those doors, we might see anything. We could find new worlds, terrifying monsters, impossible things. And if you come with me... nothing will ever be the same again!

But in the end she merely shrugged, knowing at the very least it would be interesting. Knowing, in her gut, it might just be the beginning.

She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

I'm really a believer in being in situations that feel new and awkward and different. And I love that feeling of being in motion - that sense you find when you're traveling.

I don't know what's on the other side.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

Everything I do now is a first.

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.