"You can only possess beauty through understanding it." — John Ruskin

"You can only possess beauty through understanding it."

— John Ruskin

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404 Quotes by John Ruskin

John Ruskin has 404 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both…
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was…
To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
When we build, let us think that we build forever.
In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on…
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by…
Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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