John Ruskin Quotes - Page 4

Quotes about:

• Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!

  John Ruskin

  Patience, Writing, Long

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 443), 1895.

  5 Copy quote

• A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.

  John Ruskin

  Dog, Character, Men

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters”, p.55

  5 Copy quote

• I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Hurt, Animal

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.415, University of Virginia Press

  35 Copy quote

• Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Pain, Memories

  John Ruskin “The Works of John Ruskin”

  19 Copy quote

• We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

  John Ruskin

  Two, Design, Firsts

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Stones of Venice”, p.77, John Ruskin

  30 Copy quote

• Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Forever, Noble

  "Pearls for Young Ladies".

  11 Copy quote

• There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

  John Ruskin

  Hands, Honor, Asking

  John Ruskin (1857). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.5

  10 Copy quote

• The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Thoughtful, Color

  1851-3 The Stones ofVenice, vol.ii, ch.5.

  34 Copy quote

• It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

  John Ruskin

  Reputation, Born, Remembered

  John Ruskin (1867). “Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.”, p.119

  4 Copy quote

• A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Men, Giraffe

  John Ruskin (1894). “Letters on Art and Literature”

  20 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Running, Rainy Day

  "The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

  131 Copy quote

• God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do; if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault.

  John Ruskin

  God, Religious, Giving

  "The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation".

  18 Copy quote

• Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

  John Ruskin

  Greatness, Space, Mind

  4 Copy quote

• 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”

  10 Copy quote

• Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

  John Ruskin

  Sympathy, Country, Father

  5 Copy quote

• In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.

  John Ruskin

  Writing, Thinking, Hymns

  8 Copy quote

• Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

  John Ruskin

  Sunset, New Beginnings, Sunrise

  John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Art”, p.97, John Ruskin

  53 Copy quote

• Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

  John Ruskin

  Genius, Seeing, Superiors

  8 Copy quote

• Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Book, Reading

  Sesame and Lilies preface (1865)

  19 Copy quote

• The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Cities, Political

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.180, University of Virginia Press

  7 Copy quote

• There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

  John Ruskin

  Work, Men, Gentleman

  John Ruskin (1866). “The crown of wild olive”, p.24

  4 Copy quote

• Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

  John Ruskin

  Positive, Art, Reality

  12 Copy quote

• The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.

  John Ruskin

  Flower, Firsts, Delight

  27 Copy quote

• It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

  John Ruskin

  Too Much, Littles, Pay

  "The Yale Book of Quotations". Book by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 657, 2006.

  23 Copy quote

Page 4 of 25

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin