107 Quotes By John Ruskin


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

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
John Ruskin on success

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

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
John Ruskin on time

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin on truth

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.
John Ruskin on truth

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
John Ruskin on truth

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

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

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

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin on work

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
John Ruskin on work

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
John Ruskin on work

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
John Ruskin on work

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 work

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
John Ruskin on work

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
John Ruskin on work

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
John Ruskin on work

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
John Ruskin on work

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
John Ruskin on work