107 Quotes By John Ruskin


Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
John Ruskin on great

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
John Ruskin on great

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
John Ruskin on great

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin on great

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
John Ruskin on great

Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
John Ruskin on great

A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.
John Ruskin on great

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
John Ruskin on great

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
John Ruskin on great

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

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
John Ruskin on great

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
John Ruskin on happiness

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
John Ruskin on hope

There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin on life

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
John Ruskin on love

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
John Ruskin on men

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

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.
John Ruskin on men

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
John Ruskin on money

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
John Ruskin on music