Words matter. These are the best Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don’t know how to make use of the old ones.
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.
Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
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.
Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.
He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
Imaginary evils are incurable.
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.
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.
He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.
Imaginary evils are incurable.
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.
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
