John Ruskin Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• 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.

  John Ruskin

  Relationship, Mean, Humility

• 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

  Book, Knowledge And Power, Sight

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

• He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.

  John Ruskin

  Sarcastic, Thinking, Opinion

• All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree not of a cloud.

  John Ruskin

  Clouds, Tree, Opinion

  John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters”, p.11

• There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.

  John Ruskin

  Opinion, Process, Amalgamation

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth”, p.2

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