Theodore Parker Quotes

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war.

Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy sport. But in the end, the tough guy gets to clean the streets and be a bodyguard. In the ring, the tough guy is going to get hurt; at the end of the day, he's going to talk funny. Only the smartest win. So, I know it's cliché, but power - real power - comes from knowledge, comes from smarts.

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Force without wisdom fall of its own weight.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.

A real man's weapon is his mind.

What good is strength if you have no sense?

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.

The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.

Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness.

What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

You have a dizzying intellect.

If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

Brainpower is the ultimate leverage.