The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
~ John Ruskin

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
~ John Ruskin

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.
~ John Ruskin

No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.
~ John Ruskin

Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.
~ John Ruskin

Success in school is not the same thing as success in life. University administrators in the James Conant mold assumed that people who could earn high grades would continue to excel later in their career.
~ David Brooks

via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic

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When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
~ John Ruskin

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
~ John Ruskin

All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree — not of a cloud.
~ John Ruskin

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
~ John Ruskin