As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

Most Americans think there’s already universal background checks. They don’t understand why there wouldn’t be a background check to purchase a weapon.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

I don’t digest things with my mind.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States – old as well as new – North as well as South.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect – if you’re a moderate on abortion, if you’re a moderate on gun control, or if you’re a moderate in your religious faith – it doesn’t evolve into a crusade where you’re either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Facts are not interesting to me.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‚solve the climate crisis.‘ But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

I don’t think we need more gun control laws.

Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Guns are bad, I tell you.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.