Agnes Repplier Quotes

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

I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them.

Every year, I come to TED prepared to roll my eyes a lot at the beginning, but knowing that at some point in the intellectual marathon, my brain will buckle to the cascade of ideas and bend to the painstakingly rehearsed presentations.

Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining.

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

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

I find that, for me, personally - and this is in everyday life - if I'm not growing, if I can't be stimulated in a conversation, then I am bored. And I'm not good when I'm bored.

The best ideas start as conversations.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.

I miss being exposed to the leading thinkers of the world.

Read books and keep informed. The conversation can get old if you don't have some good new topics to bring to the table.

I love a guy who knows who he is, can make me laugh, and challenges me intellectually.

The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.

I enjoy a challenge or provocation, something to think about, to talk about after it's done.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

What is reading but silent conversation?

The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity of producing and exchanging ideas. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. In the course of my history, not love or marriage so much as friendship has promoted growth.