John Ruskin Quotes
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An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
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The Training which Makes Men Happiest in themselves ... also Makes Them Most Serviceable to Others.
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The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.
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No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.
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Do justice to your brother, and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don't love him, and you will come to hate him.
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All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
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... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.
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Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.
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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
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All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
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When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
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One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.
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Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
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Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.
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Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.
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See! This our fathers did for us.
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Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.
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It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
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God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.
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But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.
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Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music, and in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety; the merchant rising to his Mammon matins, with the self-denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he maybe beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers.
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The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.
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To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.