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John Ruskin Quotes

«Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.»
«There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | Keywords: lawful, prey
«There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey.»
«In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.»
«The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge.»
«Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | About: Quality | Keywords: accident, intelligent
«The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power»
«Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | About: Education, Soul | Keywords: leading
«When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | About: Ability, Work | Keywords: expect, skill
«To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | Keywords: capable, honesty

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