Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

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.

We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

I'll match wits with anybody. I don't care if they have the top degree in the world.

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

The mind is the greatest weapon in the world.

The empires of the future are empires of mind.

Some people just don’t have high enough IQs to compete.

Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

Some have brains, and some haven't, and there it is.

My biggest resource is my mind.

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.

Do we have a brain? Than use it. It's all you need to overcome a problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.

Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that my own hands, all of my life, I put in the plant beds and transferred it! I hoed it! I've dug in it! I've sprayed it! I've chopped it! I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it!

Working with my hands keeps me sane.