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title: "33 Higher Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson"
description: "33 Higher quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Plus more from Ralph Waldo Emerson and more Higher sayings from other authors."
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> [Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/character-is-higher-than-intellect-thinking-is-the-function-living-is/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-constrained-every-moment-to-acknowledge-a-higher-origin-for/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/character-is-higher-than-intellect-a-great-soul-will-be-strong-to/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/no-love-can-be-bound-by-oath-or-covenant-to-secure-it-against-a/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/every-man-who-would-do-anything-well-must-come-to-it-from-a-higher/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-you-would-lift-me-up-you-must-be-on-higher-ground/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-owe-to-man-higher-succors-than-food-and-fire-we-owe-to-man-man/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/knowledge-is-the-antidote-to-fear-knowledge-use-and-reason-with-its/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-life-of-man-is-the-true-romance-which-when-it-is-valiantly/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/but-in-every-constitution-some-large-degree-of-animal-vigor-is/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-feel-the-same-truth-how-often-in-my-trivial-conversation-with-my/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/but-there-are-higher-secrets-of-culture-which-are-not-for-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/higher-than-the-question-of-our-duration-is-the-question-of-our/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/life-must-be-lived-on-a-higher-plane-we-must-go-up-to-a-higher/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-should-have-a-farm-or-a-mechanical-craft-for-his-culture-we/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-beautiful-behavior-is-better-than-a-beautiful-form-it-gives-a/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-refining-influence-is-the-study-of-art-which-is-the-science-of/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-great-make-its-feel-first-of-all-the-indifference-of/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/behind-every-individual-closes-organization-before-him-opens-liberty/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-true-thrift-is-always-to-spend-on-the-higher-plane-to-invest-and/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/let-us-even-bid-our-dearest-friends-farewell-and-defy-them-saying-who/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/to-give-money-to-a-sufferer-is-only-a-come-off-it-is-only-a/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-actions-of-enthusiasm-this-drawback-appears-but-in-those-lower/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-primarily-engaged-to-myself-to-be-a-public-servant-of-all-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/painting-seems-to-be-to-the-eye-what-dancing-is-to-the-limbs-when/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-little-consideration-of-what-takes-place-around-us-every-day-would/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-you-would-lift-me-up-you-ve-got-to-be-on-higher-ground/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/society-cannot-do-without-cultivated-men-as-soon-as-the-first-wants/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/by-going-one-step-further-back-in-thought-discordant-opinions-are/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-shall-one-day-learn-to-supersede-politics-by-education-what-we/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/let-us-make-education-brave-and-preventive-politics-is-an-afterwork-a/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/man-is-a-stream-whose-source-is-hidden-our-being-is-descending-into-2/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-count-him-a-great-man-who-inhabits-a-higher-sphere-of-thought-into/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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## Other authors on Higher

## 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/)

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