All John Ruskin Quotes
- You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. Buy
- Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. Ambition
- Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. Art
- Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. Beginning
- All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. All
- We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. Architecture
- When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. Ability
- Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. Depraved
- The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual… Clothes
- To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. Beginning
- A book worth reading is worth buying. Book
- Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. All
- Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. Art
- The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. Able
- He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. Anger
- Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. Experience
- The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. Absolutely
- To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance. Anything Well
- It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place,… Both
- Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. Beautiful
- All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it,… All
- The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. Bought
- A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. Effort
- All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. All
- Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. All