770 Quotes by John Ruskin

No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.

There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess.

Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the wisest as for the simplest man being discontent with his position, as respects the real quantity of knowledge he possesses.

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

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.