John Ruskin

"You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both. Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cog-wheels, and if their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them."

— John Ruskin (1819-1900)

“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. ”

— John Ruskin (1819-1900)

“The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.”

— John Ruskin (1819-1900)

“It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When

you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay

too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you

bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The

common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a

lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well

to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will

have enough to pay for something better.”

— John Ruskin (1819-1900)

“Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.”

— John Ruskin (1819-1900)

“No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.”

— John Ruskin (1819-1900)

“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 (1819-1900)

“Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.”

— John Ruskin (1819-1900)

"There is no wealth but life.”

— John Ruskin (1819-1900)

“Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.”

— John Ruskin (1819-1900)

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

— John Ruskin (1819-1900)

“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do”

— John Ruskin (1819-1900)

“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. There must be the will to produce a superior thing.”

— John Ruskin (1819-1900)

"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved."

— John Ruskin (1819-1900)

"It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated."

— John Ruskin (1819-1900)