Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

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The greatest leveler is politeness; it removes all class distinctions.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

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Those who believe in the freedom of the will have never loved, and never hated.

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It is difficult to see the person who admires us as stupid.

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What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.

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Whoso appears before the public should expect no consideration and demand none.

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

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

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I have often been told, on the occasion of the publication of some important scientific work, that 'whatever there is true in it is not new, and what is new is not true.' This means in plain language: 'we understand what we know, but that which we ought to know, we do not understand.'

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Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.

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To understand that the sky is everywhere blue, we need not go round the world.

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When curiosity is felt about serious things we call it thirst for knowledge.

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It is not the mortal but the incurable illnesses which are the worst.

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

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Physicians are hated either on principle or for financial reasons.

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No one ever accomplished the ordinary who did not attempt the extraordinary.

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Manuscripts either moulder in your drawer, or mature there.

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

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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

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To a new truth there is nothing more hurtful than an old error.

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It is a characteristic of the great that they demand far less of other people than of themselves.

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But little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

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One thought cannot awake without awakening others.

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Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.

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We are so vain that we care even for the opinion of those we don't care for.

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

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If art finds the temple closed, then it flees into the workshop.

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Chance is necessity hidden behind a veil.

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The simplest and commonest truth seems new and miraculous the very moment we first experience it in ourselves.

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If you walk down a well-trodden path long enough, you eventually end up alone.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach