John Ruskin Quotes

It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. Whenyou pay too much, you lose a litt...

So far, therefore, as the science of exchange relates to the advantage of one of the exchanging pers...

One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy ...

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture ca...

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and cl...

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

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of a...

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

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only c...

God gives us always strength enough and sense enough for everything He wants us to do.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little chea...

It is evident that the chief feeling induced by woody country is one of reverence for its antiquity....

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.

No one can do me any good by loving me I have more love than I need or could do any good with but ...

If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.

When I have been unhappy I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds when I am ...

Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us up snow is exhilarating there is really ...

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as t...

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

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

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

Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.

I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his...

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light depri...

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and what it saw in a pla...

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

It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that ...

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch...

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great o...

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue ...

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according ...

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for ...

Fine art is that in which the hand the head and the heart of man go together.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can n...

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of man in strong health as color to his cheek and wherever ...

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

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise as the greatest c...

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern E...

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

God alone can finish.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Sometimes gentle sometimes capricious sometimes awful never the same for two moments together al...

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then th...

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for i...

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disor...

The weakest among us has a gift however seemingly trivial which is peculiar to him and which worth...

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and ...

Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures

Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to...

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with...

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to b...

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men ...

It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture...

You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

We are always in these days endeavoring to separate intellect and manual labor; we want one man to b...

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for...

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and re...

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all thin...

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.

I know well that happiness is in little things.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really ...

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

And whether consciously or not, you must be in many a heart enthroned: queens you must always be: qu...

Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you sh...

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

No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser...

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

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

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or...

the true knowledge is disciplined and tested knowledge,—not the first thought that comes, so the tru...

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us snow is exhilarating there is no such th...

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--...

There is no wealth but life.

Let us then understand at once that change or variety is as much a necessity to the human heart and ...

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorio...

And observe, you are put to stern choice in this matter. You must either make a tool of the creature...

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true...

If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear ...

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little differ...

When men are rightfully occupied then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals o...

To be content in utter darkness and ignorance is indeed unmanly, and therefore we think that to love...

Shadows are in reality when the sun is shining the most conspicuous thing in a landscape next to ...

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

When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a...