Way Quotes by John Ruskin

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

— John Ruskin

Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.

— John Ruskin

The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones.

— John Ruskin

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that…

— John Ruskin

All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.

— John Ruskin

To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving…

— John Ruskin

It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of…

— John Ruskin

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the…

— John Ruskin

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a…

— John Ruskin

The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read…

— John Ruskin

All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by…

— John Ruskin

Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any…

— John Ruskin

Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of…

— John Ruskin

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible…

— 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

It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and…

— John Ruskin

You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in…

— John Ruskin

The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of…

— John Ruskin

Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still.…

— John Ruskin

There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to…

— John Ruskin