John Ruskin: Trending quotes

“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.”

“If you want to work for the kingdom of God, and to bring it, and enter into it, there is just one condition to be first accepted. You must enter into it as children, or not at all.”

“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.”

“It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.”

“It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money — that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot — it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.”

“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.”

“In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.”

“A book worth reading is worth owning.”

“Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.”

“Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.”

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.”

“What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.”

“God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the place where He wishes us to be employed; and that employment is truly "our Father's business."”

“He who has the truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.”

“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.”

“The best thing in life aren't things.”

“You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.”

“Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.”

“All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.”