John Ruskin Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old John Ruskin quotes, John Ruskin sayings, and John Ruskin proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them. John Ruskin
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. John Ruskin
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. John Ruskin
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. John Ruskin
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. John Ruskin
Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. Nothing that lives is or can be rigidly perfect. John Ruskin
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. John Ruskin
Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. John Ruskin
You bring up your girls as if they were meant for sideboard ornaments, and then complain of their frivolity? John Ruskin
Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy and competition the laws of death. John Ruskin
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather. only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin
Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing. JOHN RUSKIN
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. John Ruskin
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. John Ruskin
Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable. John Ruskin
Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. John Ruskin
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. John Ruskin
When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, See! this our fathers did for us. John Ruskin
We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts John Ruskin
What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. John Ruskin
The only thing of consequence is what we do. John Ruskin
Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. John Ruskin
Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. John Ruskin
Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. John Ruskin
You may either win your peace or buy it; win it; by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil. John Ruskin