John Ruskin Quotes
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There is a certain noble pride, through which merits shine brighter than through modesty.
[Pride]
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There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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There's no music in a "rest," but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.
[Patience]
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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
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Three forms of asceticism have existed in this weak world. - Religious asceticism, being the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake, as supposed, of religion; seen chiefly in the middle ages. - Military asceticism, being the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake of power; seen chiefly in the early days of Sparta and Rome. - And monetary asceticism, consisting in the refusal of pleasure and knowledge for the sake of money; seen in the present days of London and Manchester.
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To cultivate sympathy you must be among living beings and thinking about them; to cultivate admiration, among beautiful things and looking at them.
[Admiration]
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To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
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To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
[Education]
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To my early knowledge of the Bible I owe the best part of my taste in literature, and the most precious, and on the whole, the one essential part of my education.
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To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
[Poetry]
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To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.
[Books]
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Touching plagiarism in general, it is to be remembered that all men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person whom they meet and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest is he who has been oftenest aided; and, if the attainments of all human minds could be traced to their real sources, it would be found that the world had been laid most under contribution by the men of most original power, and that every day of their existence deepened their debt, to their race, while it enlarged their gifts to it.
[Plagiarism]
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Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
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We treat God with irreverence by banishing him from our thoughts, not by referring to his will on slight occasions.
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