John Ruskin Quotes


122 quotes:

"It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them."
Author: Ruskin Quotes Category: Discipline Quotes Writers And Writing Quotes
"What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money."
Author: Ruskin Quotes Category: Wealth Quotes
"The best thing in life aren't things."
Author: Ruskin Quotes Category: Value Quotes
"Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it."
Author: Ruskin Quotes Category: Society Quotes Status Quotes
"Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself."
Author: Ruskin Quotes Category: Service Quotes
"What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end."
Author: Ruskin Quotes Category: Quality Quotes
"Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride"
Author: Ruskin Quotes Category: Pride Quotes
"The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain."
Author: Ruskin Quotes Category: Practice Quotes Vanity Quotes
"No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art."
Author: Ruskin Quotes Category: Perfection Quotes
"Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself --my disgust at her barbarity --clumsiness --darkness --bitter mockery of herself --is the most desolating."
Author: Ruskin Quotes Category: Nature Quotes
"They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame."
Author: Ruskin Quotes Category: Praise Quotes Mediocrity Quotes
"Give a little to love a child, and you get a great deal back"
Author: Ruskin Quotes Category: Love Quotes
"How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible. There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment."
Author: Ruskin Quotes Category: Liberty Quotes
"It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning."
Author: Ruskin Quotes Category: Learning Quotes
"The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle."
Author: Ruskin Quotes Category: Language Quotes
"It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail."
Author: Ruskin Quotes Category: Labor Quotes
"Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure."
Author: Ruskin Quotes Category: Knowledge Quotes
"Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not."
Author: Ruskin Quotes Category: Individuality Quotes
"It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest."
Author: Ruskin Quotes Category: Imagination Quotes
"The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power."
Author: Ruskin Quotes Category: Imagination Quotes

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