Famous Quotes

Quotes by John Ruskin

• The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
• The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.
• The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
• The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
• The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
• The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
• The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
• The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
• The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
• The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
• 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.
• There is no wealth but life.
• To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
• To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.