Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradictionCollection: Clever
Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.Collection: Grace
Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.Collection: Stupid
Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.Collection: Lying
Age either transfigures or petrifies.Collection: Age
We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.Collection: Patience
Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.Collection: Teacher
To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.Collection: Littles
Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.Collection: Time
Deep learning doesn't shine.Collection: Shining
Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.Collection: Shadow
Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.Collection: Learning
"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.Collection: Heart
Passion is always suffering, even when gratified.Collection: Passion
Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.Collection: Giving
We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.Collection: Wise
The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.Collection: Justice
Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.Collection: Wise
Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it.Collection: Answers
Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.Collection: Childhood
An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.Collection: Prejudice
One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.Collection: Order
Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.Collection: Imagination
Genius points the way, talent takes it.Collection: Genius
Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.Collection: Form
One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.Collection: Vanity
It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.Collection: People
In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.Collection: Friendship
The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.Collection: Truth
The wise man is seldom prudent.Collection: Wise
An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.Collection: Long
There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.Collection: Trust
Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive.Collection: Arguing
Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.Collection: Men
They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.Collection: Understanding
I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.Collection: Regret
Who doesn't know anything, has to believe everything.Collection: Believe
Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day.Collection: Opportunity
We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?Collection: Poet
A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.Collection: Book
The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.Collection: Children
Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.Collection: Kindness
Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.Collection: Morality
Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.Collection: Believe
A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.Collection: Pride
To be young is delightful; to be old is comfortable.Collection: Youth
Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.Collection: Blessed
Not reading a beautiful book again because you’ve already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.Collection: Reading