John Ruskin Quotes About Knowledge

Quotes about: Knowledge

• The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.

  John Ruskin

  Learning, Knowledge, People

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.275, University of Virginia Press

• You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

  John Ruskin

  Knowledge, Helping Others, People

  John Ruskin (2015). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.93, John Ruskin

• Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

  John Ruskin

  Knowledge, Giving, Pleasure

  "The Stones of Venice".

• What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe,
  and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and
  balms and spices... It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the
  science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It
  means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively that everyone has something
  nice to eat.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Nice, Food

• Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

  John Ruskin

  Knowledge, Science, Law

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