Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

We are so vain that we value the opinion even of those whose opinions we find worthless.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

People who chase after ever greater wealth without taking the time to enjoy it are like hungry people who are forever cooking but never sit down to eat.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Public opinion is the whore among opinions.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach