John Ruskin Quotes & Quotations

John Ruskin Quotes

» No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

» The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

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

» Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

» A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

» Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

» The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

» The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

» No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

» Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

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