Top 140 Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “In youth we learn; in age we understand.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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2. “As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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3. “Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

4. “Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

5. “Deep learning doesn’t shine.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

6. “Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

7. “There is only one proof of ability – action.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

8. “We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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9. “To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

10. “Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

13. “How wise must one be to be always kind.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

15. “Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

16. “When curiosity turns to serious matters, it’s called research.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

17. “Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

19. “If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one’s own power.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

20. “I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

23. “Many a truth is the result of an error.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

24. “Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

25. “Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

26. “Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

27. “Those whom we support hold us up in life.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

28. “Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

29. “Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

30. “Who doesn’t know anything, has to believe everything.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

33. “So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

34. “In youth we learn; in age we understand. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

35. “You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

36. “Wir suchen die Wahrheit, finden wollen wir sie aber nur dort, wo es uns beliebt.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

37. “The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

38. “What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

39. “Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

41. “Imaginary evils are incurable.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

42. “Unattainable wishes are often “pious.” This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

43. “Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

44. “There are very few honest friends – the demand is not particularly great.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

45. “The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

46. “You can sink so fast that you think you are flying.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach