John Ruskin Quotes

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

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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 entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things not merely industrious, but to love industry not merely learned, but to love knowledge not merely pure, but to love purity not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.

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Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens There is no putting by that crown queens you must always be queens to your lovers queens to your husbands and sons queens of higher mystery to the world beyond.... But alas you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.

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The highest reward for a mans toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.

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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.

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There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

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Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.

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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

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Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion all in one.

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Quality is never an accident it is always the result of an intelligent effort.

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I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. Really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, incredibly merciful.

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I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

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You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults. In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong honor that try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.

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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

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An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

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The bitterness of poor quality Lingers long after The sweetness of low price is forgotten.

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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.

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What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

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