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.

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

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

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.

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

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

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.

Guns are bad, I tell you.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

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

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

The 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.

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

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

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.

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.

Facts are not interesting to me.

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

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

A 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.

The NICS database has holes big enough to drive a Mack truck through.

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.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

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

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.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

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

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

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

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

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

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

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

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

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.