188 Quotes by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

It’s bad enough when married people bore one another, but it’s much worse when only one of them bores the other.

Believe flatterers and you’re lost; believe your enemies and you despair.

No one is so eager to gain new experiences as he who doesn’t know how to make use of the old ones.

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

To accept reason is impossible if you don’t already possess it.

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

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

The world would be in better shape if people would take the same pains in the practice of the simplest moral laws as they exert in intellectualizing over the most subtle moral questions.

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