The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.
Bertrand RussellFew people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard ShawA flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
Hermann HesseEvolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI 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.
Abraham LincolnReading, 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.
Albert EinsteinThe NICS database has holes big enough to drive a Mack truck through.
John KennedyIn 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.
Jimmy CarterSome of my colleagues argue that by further curtailing our Second Amendment rights, they can enhance public safety. Fine, the burden of proof is on them.
John KennedyFacts are stubborn things.
Ronald ReaganAmbition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Napoleon BonaparteI think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.
George W. BushFacts are not interesting to me.
Ray BradburyThe policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
Huey NewtonI have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
Clint EastwoodA man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAnyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
Eleanor RooseveltThinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEvery known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
VoltaireThe work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
John RuskinPeople usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis BaconGet your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark TwainI have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.
Nelson MandelaOur esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
William JamesPeople should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.
Joe BidenPractical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry AdamsBeto’s copy of the Bill of Rights goes from one to three. Mine includes the Second Amendment. But there are a whole host of people here in Washington… they would be happy to confiscate America’s guns. And if you don’t believe that, then you probably also still believe in Bigfoot.
John KennedyReading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.
Arthur SchopenhauerThink left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Dr. SeussFacts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
BonoScience is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl SaganDeath and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar WildeThe best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.
Madeleine AlbrightI very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.
Albert EinsteinThe mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
Douglas AdamsI don’t think we need more gun control laws.
John KennedySilence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.
Muhammad AliI sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.
Conor McGregorMost of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Aldous HuxleyFacts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark TwainWriting, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
Isaac AsimovLiving 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.
Audrey HepburnWhat with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
Aldous HuxleyThere 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.
John KennedyWhen you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus AureliusThose who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand RussellMany a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Friedrich NietzscheWhen the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
PlatoPrinciples and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
Carl von ClausewitzThinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.
Robert FrostHere’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.
Kanye WestAlmost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
Virginia WoolfPart of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.
Barack ObamaWe get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Albert CamusThe unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert EinsteinI 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.
Thomas CarlyleTo be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.
William JamesThe world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.
John Muir