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.

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

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.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

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

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

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.

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

I don’t digest things with my mind.

Guns are bad, I tell you.

People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

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.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Those 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.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

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

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.

The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

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.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

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

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

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

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

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

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

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.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

Facts are stubborn things.

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

Beto’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.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.

Almost 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.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

What 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.

What 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.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Part 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.

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.

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

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

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.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

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

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

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.

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

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

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

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

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

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

I’ve always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.

Wisdom 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.

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