“The pencil is mightier than the pen.”

— Robert M. Pirsig , book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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American writer and philosopher 1928–2017

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“The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.”

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“The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

“Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.”

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Richelieu

Act ii, Scene ii. This is the origin of the much quoted phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword". Compare: "Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 4.
Richelieu (1839)

“A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place, Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword?”

James Joyce book Finnegans Wake

Page 306
Finnegans Wake (1939)
Context: A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place, Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword? A Successful Career in the Civil Service.