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John Ruskin
Quotes by John Ruskin
Quotes by John Ruskin
“A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.”
John Ruskin
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
John Ruskin
“The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.”
John Ruskin
“I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.”
John Ruskin
“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”
John Ruskin
“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.”
John Ruskin
“The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.”
John Ruskin
“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”
John Ruskin
“There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.”
John Ruskin
“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.”
John Ruskin
“The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”
John Ruskin
“Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.”
John Ruskin
“There is no wealth but life.”
John Ruskin
“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
John Ruskin
“You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.”
John Ruskin
“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”
John Ruskin
“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”
John Ruskin
“Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.”
John Ruskin
“All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.”
John Ruskin
“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.”
John Ruskin
“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”
John Ruskin
“The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.”
John Ruskin
“Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.”
John Ruskin
“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”
John Ruskin
“A book worth reading is worth buying.”
John Ruskin
