ContraPoints Quotes

My main goal is to really make people think, and laugh while they do so.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film.

I don't want your vote. I want something more important. I want your commitment to think. Because once you start thinking, I'll get your vote.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

I like people with their own opinions, and I like people who argue with me. It's very exhausting to be in a room full of people who just nod and smile.

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

I like movies as a viewer that challenge me to actually think rather than spoon feed everything to me.

I like my mind being stimulated. I like discovering new concepts.

If I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's a waste of time. I don't want to read a book that simply confirms what I already know.

Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.

... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.

Laughter is no enemy to learning

Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles.

I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win.

There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.

It only hurts when I'm not laughing.

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.