Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Deep learning doesn't shine.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In this world, all power rests upon force.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Runners are poor walkers.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Age either transfigures or petrifies.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

New happiness too must be learned to bear.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend…

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of…

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the…

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Many a truth is the result of an error.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Those whom we support hold us up in life.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The insignificant labor; the great create.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

How wise must one be to be always kind.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Pity is love in undress.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Those who know nothing must believe everything.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Imaginary evils are incurable.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Many priceless things can be bought.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

We are not always even what we are most.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Conquer, but don't triumph.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The wise man is seldom prudent.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach