John Ruskin Quotes

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
John Ruskin

Beautiful, True, Nothing

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
John Ruskin

Ignorance, Profound, Sensation

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin

Education, Children, Honesty

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.
John Ruskin

Architecture, Two, Goodness

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
John Ruskin

Good, Women, Men

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, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John Ruskin

Simple, Sacrifice, Place

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
John Ruskin

Work, Great, 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, true and existent.
John Ruskin

Art, True, Call

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
John Ruskin

End, Beginning, Natural

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin

Love, Work, Together

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
John Ruskin

Time, Two, Books

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John Ruskin

Education, Best, Human

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
John Ruskin

Good, Great, Person

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
John Ruskin

Education, Work, Someone

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
John Ruskin

Great, Person, Done

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
John Ruskin

Makes, Purpose, Spends

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
John Ruskin

Different, Place, Modern

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
John Ruskin

Work, Others, Ambition

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
John Ruskin

Sign, Price, Slavery

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin

Good, Bad, Different

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John Ruskin

Poetry, Religion, Clearly

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 education.
John Ruskin

Education, Government, Food

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
John Ruskin

Work, Fact, Story

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
John Ruskin

Time, Great, Resolutely

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin

Possession, Weariness, Increased

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: February 8, 1819

Died: January 20, 1900

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