Intelligent Thought Quotes

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.

I find it hard to understand why those who demand Unitary Education by the State do not also demand a Unitary Press by the State... Either the State is infallible, in which case we could not do better than to submit to it the entire domain of intelligent thought, or it is not, in which case it is no more rational to hand over education to it than the press.

Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.

A related aspect of intelligent consciousness is delay of gratification: the wisdom to accurately predict whether delay rather than acting on impulse will yield greater benefit.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.