John Ruskin Quotes
It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect--truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling.
Quotes to Explore
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.
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Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.
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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
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A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.
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The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
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Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
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I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
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Our most urgent problem just now is how to preserve in a positive and critical form the soul of truth in the two great traditions, classical and Christian, that are crumbling as mere dogma.
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When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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If we have truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not truth, it ought to be harmed.'
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'No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.'
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No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
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The deepest thinking is humble. It is only concerned that the flame of truth which it keeps alive should burn with the strongest and purest heat; it does not trouble about the distance to which its brightness penetrates.
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In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.
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At restaurants, I try to tell them not to bring the bread basket, but what's the point of going out to eat if I can't enjoy it?
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect--truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling.
