Inspirational Quotes by John Ruskin

God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

— John Ruskin

See! This our fathers did for us.

— John Ruskin

Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.

— John Ruskin

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

— John Ruskin

He who is not actively kind is cruel!

— John Ruskin

Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

— John Ruskin

Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.

— John Ruskin

The last act crowns the play.

— John Ruskin

All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.

— John Ruskin

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

— John Ruskin

Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.

— John Ruskin

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

— John Ruskin

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

— John Ruskin

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

— John Ruskin

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

— John Ruskin

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

— John Ruskin

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and…

— John Ruskin

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise…

— John Ruskin

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never…

— John Ruskin

But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not…

— John Ruskin

Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all --…

— John Ruskin

Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in…

— John Ruskin

“There is no music in a rest, but there is the making of music in it. In our whole life-melody the music…

— John Ruskin

“And observe, you are put to stern choice in this matter. You must either make a tool of the creature, or a…

— John Ruskin

Always stand by form against force.

— John Ruskin

When God shuts a door, He opens a window.

— John Ruskin

There are many religions, but there is only one morality.

— John Ruskin

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.

— John Ruskin

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

— John Ruskin

There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

— John Ruskin

Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.

— John Ruskin

Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.

— John Ruskin

I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

— John Ruskin

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

— 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

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

— John Ruskin

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

— John Ruskin

What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.

— John Ruskin

“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.”

— John Ruskin

Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all…

— John Ruskin