John Ruskin Quotes
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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
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Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
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The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.
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There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.
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If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.
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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
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The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.
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The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.
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All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.
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No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
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That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
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Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
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The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
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English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
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Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age.
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Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.
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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
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The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.
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All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree - not of a cloud.
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As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite--energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not.
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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
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There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.