All John Ruskin Quotes
- It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. Advice
- The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them. Behind
- All art is but dirtying the paper delicately. All
- He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. Fear
- To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught… Able
- The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious,… Education
- Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons… Action
- No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. Art
- You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement. Advertisement
- The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. Appearance
- It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work. Better
- Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life. All
- No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All… Admit
- Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the… Duty
- You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw… Abolish
- Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. Beauty
- When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will… Alone
- God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to… Every Man
- When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be… Alone
- We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone. All
- The best work never was and never will be done for money. Best
- In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm… Any
- Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests.… Design
- Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our… Country
- The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle Charm