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John Ruskin Quotes about Children

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Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Love, Family, Children

The Crown of Wild Olive Lecture 1 (1866)

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Trust, Children, Truth

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

The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.

Children, Ocean, Ignorance

John Ruskin (1907). “The stones of Venice”

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

Education, Children, Likes And Dislikes

John Ruskin (1903). “Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain”

So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

Children, Character, Society

"Aratra Pentelici: Six Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture, Given Before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870".

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.

Art, Children, Book

St. Mark's Rest preface (1877)

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

Art, Children, Real

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.

Love, Children, Past

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Country, Children, Always Trying

See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

Children, Teaching, Science

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.

Children, Want, Kingdoms

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 269, 1895.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

Children, Years, Literature

Time and Tide Letter 13 (1867)

I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature-not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.

Children, Lying, Mean

John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.278

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

Children, Lying, Heart

John Ruskin (1872). “The Works of John Ruskin”, p.109

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

Children, Teaching, Healing

"Sesame and Lilies".

It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion.

Art, Children, Hero

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1867). “Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.”, p.77

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower; when they are faithfully helpful and compassionate, all their emotions become steady, deep, perpetual, and vivifying to the soul as the natural pulse to the body. But now, having no true business, we pour our whole masculine energy into the false business of money-making; and having no true emotion, we must have false emotions dressed up for us to play with, not innocently, as children with dolls, but guiltily and darkly.

Children, Flower, Men

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.312, University of Virginia Press

Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.

Bible, Mother, Children

If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.

Children, Father, Home

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.132, University of Virginia Press

I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child.

Children, Mountain, Obstacles

John Ruskin (1903). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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