A Quote by John Ruskin

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

John Ruskin

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Believer Builder Classes Critic Destroyer Divided Eternally People Two

Quote Author

John Ruskin
English - Writer
February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900

Jesus said, 'Greater things of these you shall do...' Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character.

Ravi Zacharias

People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it all is that the latter class is by far the larger of the two.

Douglas Fairbanks

The world is divided into two classes of people: the few people who make good on their promises (even if they don't promise as much), and the many who don't. Get in Column A and stay there. You'll be very valuable wherever you are.

Robert Townsend

The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.

James Whistler

Widows are divided into two classes - the bereaved and relieved.

Victor Robinson

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Nicolas Chamfort

If you travel the earth, you will find it is largely divided into two classes of people-people who say 'I wonder why such and such is not done" and people who say "Now who is going to prevent me from doing that thing?"

Winston Churchill

In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy.

Morton Blackwell

He listens equally to the prayers of the believer and the unbeliever.

Henry David Thoreau

Better a superstitious believer than a rational unbeliever.

Nachman of Breslov

It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planner and the doer should be two different people. It does not follow that the industrial world should be divided into two classes of people: a few who decide what is to be done, design the job, set the pace, rhythm and motions, and order others about; and the many who do what and as they are told.

Peter Drucker

Black America has always felt itself divided into two classes: the mucky-mucks and the folk.

Darryl Pinckney

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?