John Ruskin Quotes About Ignorance

Quotes about: Ignorance

• The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Ocean, Ignorance

  John Ruskin (1907). “The stones of Venice”

• To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

  John Ruskin

  Ignorance, Profound, Wells

  John Ruskin (1856). “Modern Painters”, p.37

• Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity.

  John Ruskin

  Ignorance, Humanity, Imperfect

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford in Lent Term, 1872”, p.80

• The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

  John Ruskin

  Ignorance, Responsibility

  John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.66, John Ruskin

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