All JOHN RUSKIN Quotes about “Greatness”

“I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.”
“I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.”
“The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.”
“The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.”
“Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.”
“Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.”
“I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.”
“I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.”
“Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.”
“Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.”
“Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.”
“Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.”
“Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.”
“Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.”

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