John Ruskin Quotes About Truth

Quotes about: Truth

• To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

  John Ruskin

  Trust, Children, Truth

  John Ruskin (1868). “Time and Tide, by Weare and Tyne. Twenty-five letters to a Working Man of Sunderland (Thomas Dixon) on the laws of work ... Second edition”, p.37

• Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

• Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Truth, Firsts

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9”, p.38

• Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

  John Ruskin

  Truth, Pride, Childhood

  John Ruskin (1855). “Modern Painters: pt. 1. Of general principles. pt. 2 Of truth”, p.29

• Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Truth, Space

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.28, University of Virginia Press

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