770 Quotes by John Ruskin

Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings. Men say their aisles are good for worship. Why, so is every mountain glen and rough sea-shore. But this they have of distinct and indisputable glory,--that their mighty walls were never raised, and never shall be, but by men who love and aid each other in their weakness.

I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing...

There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.

It is among children, and as children only, that you will find your healing and true wisdom for your teaching

Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.