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Top 450 John Ruskin Quotes (2025 Update)
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John Ruskin Quote: “Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.”
John Ruskin Quote: “To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.”
John Ruskin Quote: “The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.”
John Ruskin Quote: “Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.”
John Ruskin Quote: “Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.”
John Ruskin Quote: “The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.”
John Ruskin Quote: “The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.”
John Ruskin Quote: “The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.”
John Ruskin Quote: “Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary’s study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier’s face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.”
John Ruskin Quote: “To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.”
John Ruskin Quote: “It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.”
John Ruskin Quote: “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.”
John Ruskin Quote: “Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.”
John Ruskin Quote: “There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.”
John Ruskin Quote: “Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.”
John Ruskin Quote: “In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.”
John Ruskin Quote: “I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.”
John Ruskin Quote: “Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.”
John Ruskin Quote: “The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones.”
John Ruskin Quote: “In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.”
John Ruskin Quote: “Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.”
John Ruskin Quote: “Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.”
John Ruskin Quote: “Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.”
John Ruskin Quote: “No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.”
John Ruskin Quote: “Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.”
John Ruskin Quote: “Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.”
John Ruskin Quote: “In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light.”
John Ruskin Quote: “You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.”
John Ruskin Quote: “A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.”
John Ruskin Quote: “Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is “What do you like?” Tell me what you like, I’ll tell you what you are.”
John Ruskin Quote: “You may sell your work, but not your soul.”
John Ruskin Quote: “What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.”
John Ruskin Quote: “Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.”
John Ruskin Quote: “What is really desired, under the name of riches, is, essentially, power over men; in its simplest sense, the power of obtaining for own own advantage the labour of servant, tradesman, and artist; in wider sense, authority of directing large masses of the nation to various ends.”
John Ruskin Quote: “It is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words, than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to encumber temporarily the world.”
John Ruskin Quote: “Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, – strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance.”
John Ruskin Quote: “Butforme, theAlps and their peoplewerealikebeautiful in their snow, and their humanity; and I wanted, neither for them nor myself, sight of any thrones in heaven but the rocks, or of any spirits in heaven but the clouds.”
John Ruskin Quote: “Order and system are nobler things than power.”
John Ruskin Quote: “Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.”
John Ruskin Quote: “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 Quote: “To be taught to read – what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak – but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think – nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.”
John Ruskin Quote: “One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.”
John Ruskin Quote: “If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.”
John Ruskin Quote: “There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.”
John Ruskin Quote: “You may assuredly find perfect peace, if you are resolved to do that which your Lord has plainly required – and content that He should indeed require no more of you – than to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Him.”
John Ruskin Quote: “Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.”
John Ruskin Quote: “What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?”
John Ruskin Quote: “God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.”
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