"To know anything well involves a profound sensation……" — John Ruskin
"To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance."
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404 Quotes by John Ruskin
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both…
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In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
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Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was…
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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
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When we build, let us think that we build forever.
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on…
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There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
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Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
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Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by…
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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
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All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.
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More Anything Well Quotes
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Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
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Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you're automatically a role model ... I…
— LeBron James
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
— Nawal El Saadawi
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First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it.…
— B. C. Forbes
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How hard is hitting? You ever walk into a pitch-black room full of furniture that you've never been in before…
— Ted Kluszewski
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Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability…
— Charles Bukowski
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A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.
— John Szarkowski
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There is no single way to train, or do anything well. You have to keep thinking, keep doing things.
— Alexander Dale Oen
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Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything,…
— Robert Henri
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Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition…
— Michael Moriarty
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Anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say…
— Ronald Reagan
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