John Ruskin Quotes

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

John Ruskin

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• Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • World
  • Taken
  • Humanity

• Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Technology
  • Humanity
  • Wrong

• Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Humanity

• The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Universe
  • Wisdom
  • Wise

• Protecting a border is not a nice thing. It is not a matter of aesthetics; it cannot be done with flowers and teddy bears.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Done
  • Nice
  • Flowers

• Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others have stated that they think AI is an existential risk. I disagree. I don't see a risk to humanity of a 'Terminator' scenario or anything of the sort.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Think
  • Humanity
  • Risk

• Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Humanity
  • Wise
  • Unique

• The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Learn

• I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means in our history and in humanity. It was the idea that you could go to your butcher to get something, you could go to your tailor to get this, and you could go to your cobbler to get that.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • History
  • Culture
  • Humanity

• There's still something so pure and heartfelt and emotional and genuine about a bouquet of flowers that, even with all the advances of technology and the millions of ways we have to communicate with each other, flowers are still relevant in my opinion.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Technology
  • Opinion
  • Emotional

• Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Garden

• In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Art
  • Tea
  • Flowers

• I've seen incredible acts of humanity in the military because people put themselves aside, and it's about the other person.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Humanity
  • Military

• Like all great minds that do not merely imagine Utopias, but actually advance humanity to a new epoch, he Jesus took the situation and material furnished to him by the past and molded that into a fuller approximation to the divine conception within him.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Great
  • Past
  • Jesus

• The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Peace
  • Running
  • Humanity

• Cultural and ethnic diversity benefit humanity’s future, survival, strength and excellence, promoting what I call cultural vigour, similar to the way in which molecular and genetic diversity promote 'hybrid vigor' in nature and thus strength, resilience and a higher potential for a problem-free future.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Nature
  • Future
  • Free

• The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Moral

• Reorganisation, irrespectively of God or king, by the worship of Humanity, systematically adopted. Man’s only right is to do his duty. The Intellect should always be the servant of the Heart, and should never be its slave.

  

  Auguste Comte
  • God
  • Heart
  • Humanity

• An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing
  • Powerful

• The selfknowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.

  

  Max Frisch
  • Life

• In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Architecture
  • Point Of View
  • Gothic

• In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Truth
  • Success
  • Joy

• The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • People
  • Blood
  • Immigration

• Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Humanity
  • Flowers
  • Solace