All John Ruskin Quotes
- When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a… Altar
- In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong. Appreciation
- Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily… Bible
- To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. Able
- When we build, let us think that we build forever. Ass
- In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels,… Arms
- There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals. Cathedrals
- Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit. Blossoms
- Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end… All
- Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect. Freedom
- Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure. Ceases
- All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong. All
- Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. Flower
- The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of… Actual
- Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable… Attainable
- All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be… All
- He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold. Catching
- Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. All
- The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible. Acquainted
- Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. Conceit
- If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity. Antiquity
- You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest… Desire
- The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work. All
- We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts. Cannot Put
- In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to… Faith