“Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.”
– John Ruskin
“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.”
– John Ruskin
“Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.”
– John Ruskin
“Whether for life or death, do your own work well.”
– John Ruskin
“Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.”
– John Ruskin
“Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.”
– John Ruskin
“Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.”
– John Ruskin
“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.”
– John Ruskin
“Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.”
– John Ruskin
“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.”
– John Ruskin
“All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.”
– John Ruskin
“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”
– John Ruskin
“All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.”
– John Ruskin
“The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.”
– John Ruskin
“There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.”
– John Ruskin
“It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.”
– John Ruskin
“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
– John Ruskin
“Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.”
– John Ruskin
“Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.”
– John Ruskin
“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.”
– John Ruskin
“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”
– John Ruskin
“The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.”
– John Ruskin
“No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.”
– John Ruskin
“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.”
– John Ruskin
“To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”
– John Ruskin
“You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.”
– John Ruskin
“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.”
– John Ruskin
“The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.”
– John Ruskin
“It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.”
– John Ruskin
“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.”
– John Ruskin