John Ruskin Quotes about Pride

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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

John Ruskin

Mistake, Pride, Bottom

John Ruskin (1868). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.348

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

John Ruskin

Pride, Someone You Love, Useless

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

John Ruskin

Truth, Pride, Childhood

John Ruskin (1855). “Modern Painters: pt. 1. Of general principles. pt. 2 Of truth”, p.29

The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality.

John Ruskin

Art, Fall, Pride

All the other passions do occasional good, but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong, and what it might really be desirable to do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do, proudly.

John Ruskin

Passion, Pride, Occasional

"Modern Painters".

We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions, self-possession; and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace.

John Ruskin

Pride, Self, People

John Ruskin, Christine Roth (2004). “The Two Paths”, p.148, Parlor Press LLC