Children Quotes by John Ruskin

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

— John Ruskin

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

— John Ruskin

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

— John Ruskin

And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

— John Ruskin

So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

— John Ruskin

See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

— John Ruskin

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

— John Ruskin

It is among children, and as children only, that you will find your healing and true wisdom for your teaching

— John Ruskin

If you want to work for the kingdom of God, and to bring it, and enter into it, there is just one…

— John Ruskin

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every…

— John Ruskin

I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still…

— John Ruskin

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries,…

— John Ruskin

Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child…

— John Ruskin

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost…

— John Ruskin

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated…

— John Ruskin

It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your…

— John Ruskin

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of…

— John Ruskin

What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has…

— John Ruskin

It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage…

— John Ruskin

The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is…

— John Ruskin

I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that…

— John Ruskin

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the…

— John Ruskin

If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in…

— John Ruskin

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower; when they…

— John Ruskin

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

— John Ruskin