Heart Quotes by John Ruskin

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

— John Ruskin

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

— John Ruskin

No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of…

— John Ruskin

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

— John Ruskin

No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.

— John Ruskin

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

— John Ruskin

Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

— John Ruskin

The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or…

— John Ruskin

We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into…

— John Ruskin

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word,…

— John Ruskin

When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone.…

— John Ruskin

God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not…

— John Ruskin

My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart.…

— John Ruskin

Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of…

— 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

Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the…

— John Ruskin

He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent…

— 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

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of…

— John Ruskin

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

— John Ruskin

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else…

— John Ruskin

A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.

— John Ruskin

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the…

— John Ruskin

He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into…

— John Ruskin

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is…

— John Ruskin