Top 156 Quotes & Sayings by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Austrian writer Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
Imaginary evils are incurable.
Conquer, but don't triumph.
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.
To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.
Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.
Deep learning doesn't shine.
Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.
Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.
Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.
You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.
Age either transfigures or petrifies.
An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.
Passion is always suffering, even when gratified.
Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.
The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.
Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.
How wise must one be to be always kind.
Genius points the way, talent takes it.
Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.
There is only one proof of ability - action.
We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.
When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.
"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.
As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.
Those who know nothing must believe everything.
Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.
An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.
Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.
He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.
Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.
None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.
The wise man is seldom prudent.
When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.
If there is a believe that is capable to move mountains it is the believe in our own strength.
Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it.
To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.
Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.
Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.
Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.
Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.
Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.
Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.
Related Authors
Ayn Rand Quotes
Russian
Writer
C. S. Lewis Quotes
British
Writer
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
French
Writer
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
English
Writer
H. L. Mencken Quotes
American
Writer
Haruki Murakami Quotes
Japanese
Writer
Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
American
Writer
Leo Tolstoy Quotes
Russian
Writer
Mark Twain Quotes
American
Writer
Mason Cooley Quotes
American
Writer
Ray Bradbury Quotes
American
Writer
Samuel Johnson Quotes
English
Writer
Seth Godin Quotes
American
Writer
Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes
American
Writer
Suzanne Collins Quotes
American
Writer