John Ruskin Quotes

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
John Ruskin

Feelings, Same, Pathetic

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
John Ruskin

Anger, Angry, Sin

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
John Ruskin

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

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
John Ruskin

Experience, Passion, Force

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

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
John Ruskin

Long, Rich, Wish

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

Work, Great, Beautiful

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
John Ruskin

Power, Best, Successful

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

Good, Women, Men

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

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
John Ruskin

Love, Happiness, Hope

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

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

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

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
John Ruskin

Nature, Live, Him

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

Time, Two, Books

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: February 8, 1819

Died: January 20, 1900

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