Quotes by John Ruskin

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

#Books

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we...

#Books

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking...

#Optimism, #Responsibility

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no...

#Ability

God saith, 'The person I hold as beloved, I am his hearing by which he...

#God

I am an atheist, thank God!

#God

God alone can finish

#God

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

#Freedom

That thirst (for applause) if the last infirmity of noble minds, is also the first...

#Mind

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get...

#John Ruskin

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

#John Ruskin

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come...

#John Ruskin