1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.
John Ruskin – [Color]
The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.
John Ruskin – [Churches]
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
John Ruskin – [Language]
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
John Ruskin – [Nature]
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
John Ruskin – [Nations]
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
John Ruskin – [Science and Scientists]
There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin – [Life and Living]
They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.
John Ruskin – [Mediocrity]
They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
John Ruskin – [Change]
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin – [Honesty]
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.
John Ruskin – [Books and Reading]
To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.
John Ruskin – [Cheerfulness]
We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.
John Ruskin – [Creation]
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!
John Ruskin – [Architecture]
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
John Ruskin – [Arts and Artists]
What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
John Ruskin – [Libraries]
What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.
John Ruskin – [Quality]
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.
John Ruskin – [Wealth]
When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
John Ruskin – [Egotism]
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin – [Ability]
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