John Ruskin Quotes: 13

• When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

• There is no wealth but life.

• Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

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

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

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

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

  Sesame and Lilies

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

• Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.

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

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

  The Stones of Venice: Volume I. The Foundations

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

• To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

  The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition. 39 vols.