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Danh ngôn của John Ruskin (Sứ mệnh: 4)

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
There is no wealth but life.
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.
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
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.
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
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.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
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.
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.