John Ruskin Quotes

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
John Ruskin

Either, Labor, Land

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
John Ruskin

Life, Short, Few

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
John Ruskin

Work, Men, Live

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
John Ruskin

Work, Men, Perfect

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
John Ruskin

Simple, Haughty

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
John Ruskin

Good, Society, Done

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
John Ruskin

Great, Powerful, Human

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
John Ruskin

Great, Person, Painter

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
John Ruskin

Whole, Seeing, Rightly

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
John Ruskin

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
John Ruskin

Last, Hands, Crime

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
John Ruskin

Happy, Greatest, Human

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
John Ruskin

Education, Child, Desires

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John Ruskin

Religion, Poetry, Greatest

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
John Ruskin

Nature, Done, Sky

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
John Ruskin

Work, Science, Facts

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
John Ruskin

Nothing, Give, Thought

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
John Ruskin

Small, Pretty, Makes

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
John Ruskin

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
John Ruskin

Life, Work, Death

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
John Ruskin

Religion, True, Passion

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

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

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: February 8, 1819

Died: January 20, 1900

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