Louis Garrel Quotes

I love hearing people who are smarter than me talk about my comics. It makes me feel smarter.

I think it's good to meet smart people and talk.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.

I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.

Colleges and classrooms should be havens of tranquility, places where thoughtful discussions occur, where students work together with their teachers to acquire knowledge of the arts and sciences.

The Learning Hub is a collection of handmade concrete towers surrounding a central space that brings everyone together, interspersed with nooks, balconies and gardens for informal collaborative learning.

People say Wu-Tang makes you think too much. What's wrong with thinking?

If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people.

I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough!

One great pleasure of being an academic is the ability to trade in ideas with your colleagues and students; it is not much fun being the only connoisseur of some fine point.

I just think knowledge makes the world go 'round, man. So, if that makes me a geek, then cool.

I grew up on Harvard Square and I watched 50-year old men walking around with green book bags slung over their shoulders going for their fourth PhD, never having left the world of academia to alleged reality.

I'm quite intellectual. I read a lot and I'm very politically aware.

Kids and adults alike are having their curiosity drained away by boredom in class or the workplace, and by the unremitting background noise of a dumbed-down pop culture.

What I like best is sitting in a room together with really smart engineers thinking about a problem.

Bowdoin was the first place that I fell in love with. When I visited, I just had never been to a place with that many resources and that much access to information. That was stuff that you saw in movies. I didn't know that existed in real life.

Sometimes you have Harvard undergraduates who stun you with the depth of their knowledge. That is why it is great to be at a university like this.

Ed Miliband should be out and proud about his abstruse interests, his Master's in Economics, his political obsession, his prioritising of the mental over the physical.

More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.