Explore Quotes by John Ruskin

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

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

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

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.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

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

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

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

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.