John Ruskin Quotes - Page 2
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
The Crown of Wild Olive Lecture 1 (1866)
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2
John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.439
John Ruskin (1873). “The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation”, p.108
To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
John Ruskin (1875). “Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps, and in the Scotland and England which My Father Knew”, p.186
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
John Ruskin (1873). “The Stones of Venice”, p.339
Stones of Venice vol. 1, ch. 2, sec. 17 (1851)
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin (1868). “Time and Tide, by Weare and Tyne. Twenty-five letters to a Working Man of Sunderland (Thomas Dixon) on the laws of work ... Second edition”, p.37
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.885, John Ruskin
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
John Ruskin (1866). “The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War”, p.113
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
Unto This Last Essay 2 (1862)
1873 Modern Painters, vol.3, pt.4, ch.16.
John Ruskin (1857). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 4. Of many things”
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Sesames and Lilies "Of Kings' Treasuries" (1865)
John Ruskin (2006). “Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures”, p.138, Cosimo, Inc.
John Ruskin (1910*). “The Complete Works of John Ruskin”
