Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

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

Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.

An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.

He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.

Age either transfigures or petrifies.

The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.

I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.

There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.

Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.

To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable.

Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.

You can sink so fast that you think you are flying.

Most imitators attempt the inimitable.

Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive.

Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.

No one is so eager to gain new experiences as he who doesn't know how to make use of the old ones.

There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.

All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.

One thought cannot awake without awakening others.

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.

The world belongs to those who possess it, and is scorned by those to whom it should belong.

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.

Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it.

What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.

Imaginary evils are incurable.

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.

Those whom we support hold us up in life.

It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

In this world, all power rests upon force.

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.

We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.

The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.

To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.

Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.

Not every great man is a grand human being.

Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair.

When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.

Many priceless things can be bought.

Many a truth is the result of an error.

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

Runners are poor walkers.