Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
We are so vain that we value the opinion even of those whose opinions we find worthless.
In youth we learn in age we understand.
None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
Conquer, but don't triumph.
Imaginary evils are incurable.
Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.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.
Much less evil would be done on earth if evil could not be done in the name of good.
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
