Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don`t know how to make use of the old ones.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

We don`t believe in rheumatism or true love until we have been attacked by them.

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

Conquer, but don`t triumph.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

We don`t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

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.

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

We don`t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first strike.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

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.

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

Imaginary evils are incurable.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right