All John Ruskin Quotes
- 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
- A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. Choose
- To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to… Blossoms
- There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the… Christ
- Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not. Labor
- Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it. Best
- Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must… Based
- Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality. Art
- There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always… Always Missing
- On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have… All
- When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work. Amusement
- One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would… Arms
- Genius is only a superior power of seeing. Funny
- Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening… Add
- The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does,… Darkness
- Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts. Constant