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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

What do people like to call stupid the most? Something sensible that they can't understand.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Be patient with the belligerence of the simple-minded. It is not easy to understand that one doesn't understand.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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.'

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach