John Ruskin Quotes

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

I would despise myself if I thought that I was procuring your votes by concealing my opinions, and by avowing one set of principles in one part of the state and a different set in another.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

Speak nothing but the truth, and you'll soon be considered dangerous.

Question with boldness, hold to the truth, and speak without fear.

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

A man who speaks out honestly and fearlessly that which he knows, and that which he believes, will always enlist the good will and the respect, however much he may fail in winning the assent, of his fellow men.

I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.

Let there be no distance between the words you say and the life you live.

Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.

I had my bad times. But the good news is that every time this has happened I've taken full responsibility for it. I don't try to duck it, I don't try to dodge it, I don't try to bullshit about it. Truth crushed to the ground will rise again. And that's what my life has been about.

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

It must require bravery to be honest all the time.

Real integrity means an answer. It doesn't just mean - it doesn't mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.

I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.

If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather.