Top 100 Marie Von Ebner-eschenbach Quotes
#1. Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.
#2. Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!
#3. Many a truth is the result of an error.
#4. Most imitators attempt the inimitable.
#5. Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive.
#6. Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.
#7. Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
#8. In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
#9. To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable.
#10. Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.
#11. One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.
#12. Pity is love in undress.
#13. Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
#14. If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.
#15. Genius points the way, talent takes it.
#16. Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.
#17. We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.
#18. With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.
#19. Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
#20. Passion is always suffering, even when gratified.
#21. How wise must one be to be always kind.
#22. We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.
#23. Conquer, but never triumph.
#24. 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.
#25. The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.
#26. You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.
#27. It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.
#28. To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.
#29. Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
#30. Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.
#31. The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.
#32. When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.
#33. Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
#34. Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.
#35. He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.
#36. Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.
#37. The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.
#38. "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.
#39. Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?
#40. The wise man is seldom prudent.
#41. What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
#42. Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair.
#43. Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.
#44. They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.
#45. Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.
#46. Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.
#47. One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.
#48. Conquer, but don't triumph.
#49. Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it.
#50. The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.
#51. Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.
#52. The insignificant labor; the great create.
#53. So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
#54. He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.
#55. Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.
#56. Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.
#57. What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.
#58. Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.
#59. The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.
#60. The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.
#61. Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.
#62. To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.
#63. We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
#64. Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.
#65. Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it.
#66. Not every great man is a grand human being.
#67. Accident is veiled necessity.
#68. Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.
#69. The world belongs to those who possess it, and is scorned by those to whom it should belong.
#70. 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.
#71. If there is a believe that is capable to move mountains it is the believe in our own strength.
#72. Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
#73. None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.
#74. There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.
#75. Old age transfigures or fossilizes.
#76. A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.
#77. One thought cannot awake without awakening others.
#78. You can sink so fast that you think you are flying.
#79. To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.
#80. There are very few honest friends
the demand is not particularly great.
#81. That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.
#82. The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.
#83. It is difficult to see the person who admires us as stupid.
#84. Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.
#85. To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.
#86. Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.
#87. Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.
#88. Those who know nothing must believe everything.
#89. Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.
#90. Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.
#91. Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.
#92. The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.
#93. Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.
#94. New happiness too must be learned to bear.
#95. Those whom we support hold us up in life.
#96. Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.
#97. Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.
#98. We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?
#99. In youth we learn; in age we understand.
#100. When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.
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