Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make. "
John Ruskin
Hand
You
Wish
Related Quotes:
" 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
Age
Work
Powerful
" What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? "
John Ruskin
You
Books
Care
" Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. "
John Ruskin
Useless
World
Beautiful
" No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. "
John Ruskin
Great
Sculptor
Person
" No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. "
John Ruskin
Kind
Manners
Person
" No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. "
John Ruskin
Fish
Free
Great
" The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. "
John Ruskin
Women
Men
Power
" Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. "
John Ruskin
Order
Healthy
Music
" Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. "
John Ruskin
Accuracy
Work
Men
" Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. "
John Ruskin
Life
Inspirational
Beginning
" In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. "
John Ruskin
Great
Bottom
General
" Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. "
John Ruskin
Best
Human
Out
" That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. "
John Ruskin
Human
Greatest
Noble
" To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also. "
John Ruskin
Thought
Give
Nothing
" Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. "
John Ruskin
Endurance
Beauty
Patience
" The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. "
John Ruskin
Sense
Word
Men
" Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. "
John Ruskin
Education
Modern
Control
" Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. "
John Ruskin
Good
Person
Out
" Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. "
John Ruskin
Great
Book
Write
" All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. "
John Ruskin
Pathetic
Feelings
Same
" 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
Test
Man
Great
" An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind. "
John Ruskin
Person
Kind
Neither
" There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves. "
John Ruskin
Only
Leaves
Flowers
" The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. "
John Ruskin
Words
Lying
Deception
" Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. "
John Ruskin
Shadows
Just
Enjoyed
" No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. "
John Ruskin
Representation
Done
Good
" No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. "
John Ruskin
Noble
Thought
Change
" Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. "
John Ruskin
Nothing
Pride
Which
" A book worth reading is worth buying. "
John Ruskin
Reading
Worth
Buying
" There is no wealth but life. "
John Ruskin
Wealth
Life