--- title: "18 Greater Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson" description: "18 Greater quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Plus more from Ralph Waldo Emerson and more Greater sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30d/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_criticism_no-man-can-be-criticised-but-by-a-greate_7940.png" --- > [No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/no-man-can-be-criticised-but-by-a-greater-than-he-do-not-then-read/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30d/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_criticism_no-man-can-be-criticised-but-by-a-greate_7940.png) > [And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/and-what-greater-calamity-can-fall-upon-a-nation-than-the-loss-of/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51b/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_calamity_and-what-greater-calamity-can-fall-upon_646426.png) > [One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/one-single-idea-may-have-greater-weight-than-all-the-men-animals-and/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/baa/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_animal_one-single-idea-may-have-greater-weight_2762134.png) > [Every man believes he has a greater possibility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/every-man-believes-he-has-a-greater-possibility/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d32/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_belief_every-man-believes-he-has-a-greater-poss_2401684.png) > [Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/every-man-believes-that-he-has-greater-possibilities/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90d/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_believe_every-man-believes-that-he-has-greater-p_1504740.png) > [It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/it-is-a-greater-joy-to-see-the-author-s-author-than-himself/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/916/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_author_it-is-a-greater-joy-to-see-the-author-s_291368.png) > [“Great men exist that there may be greater men.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/great-men-exist-that-there-may-be-greater-men/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f05/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_great-men_great-men-exist-that-there-may-be-greate_2892648.png) > [Great men exist that there might be greater men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/great-men-exist-that-there-might-be-greater-men/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c8/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_great-men_great-men-exist-that-there-might-be-grea_3019824.png) > [There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-no-event-greater-in-life-than-the-appearance-of-new-persons/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/379/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_appearance_there-is-no-event-greater-in-life-than-t_361392.png) > [A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-friend-is-janus-faced-he-looks-to-the-past-and-the-future-he-is-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/039/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_children_a-friend-is-janus-faced-he-looks-to-the_1288778.png) > [The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-evils-of-popular-government-appear-greater-than-they-are-there-is/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59c/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_compensation_the-evils-of-popular-government-appear-g_94227.png) > [The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-adventitious-beauty-of-poetry-may-be-felt-in-the-greater-delight/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a03/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_beauty_the-adventitious-beauty-of-poetry-may-be_1122749.png) > [“Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/every-man-supposes-himself-not-to-be-fully-understood-and-if-there-is-2/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ab/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_believe_every-man-supposes-himself-not-to-be-ful_641788.jpg) > [It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/it-is-easy-to-see-that-a-greater-self-reliance-must-work-a-revolution/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d2/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_association_it-is-easy-to-see-that-a-greater-self-re_1568898.jpg) > [The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-greater-speed-and-success-that-distinguish-the-planting-of-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8f/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_corporations_the-greater-speed-and-success-that-disti_2790858.png) > [We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-cannot-describe-the-natural-history-of-the-soul-but-we-know-that/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f33/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_all-things_we-cannot-describe-the-natural-history-o_1905465.png) > [The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-axioms-of-physics-translate-the-laws-of-ethics-thus-the-whole-is/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4de/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_action_the-axioms-of-physics-translate-the-laws_3063406.jpg) > [The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-worst-feature-of-this-double-consciousness-is-that-the-two-lives/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/086/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_buzz_the-worst-feature-of-this-double-conscio_1302316.jpg) ## Other authors on Greater ## More by Ralph Waldo Emerson > [The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-history-of-mankind-interests-us-only-as-it-exhibits-a-steady-gain/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-we-will-not-interfere-with-our-thought-but-will-act-entirely-or/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-there-is-any-period-one-would-desire-to-be-born-in-is-it-not-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-cannot-speak-but-he-judges-himself-with-his-will-or-against-his/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/consideration-is-the-soil-in-which-wisdom-may-be-expected-to-grow-and/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-then-creative-reading-as-well-as-creative-writing-when-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [The order of things consents to virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-order-of-things-consents-to-virtue/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Life only avails, not the having lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/life-only-avails-not-the-having-lived/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/another-success-is-the-post-office-with-its-educating-energy/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-child-reminds-us-that-playtime-is-an-essential-part-of-our-daily/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/no-man-can-be-criticised-but-by-a-greater-than-he-do-not-then-read/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/coal-lay-in-ledges-under-the-ground-since-the-flood-until-a-laborer/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-therefore-i-had-nothing-better-to-do-than-to-think/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-a-library-we-are-surrounded-by-many-hundreds-of-dear-friends-but/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-compensations-of-calamity-are-made-apparent-to-the-understanding/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greater/ralph-waldo-emerson/#itemlist", "name": "18 Greater Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. 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