John Ruskin Quotes
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Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.
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I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing.
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What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.
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When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.
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You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
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The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
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Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.
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Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
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There are many religions, but there is only one morality.
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I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without: . . . with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and occupation, and partly his history.
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The wisest men are wise to the full in death.
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God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do.
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It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.
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At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.