188 Quotes by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.

It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.

The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.

An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.

Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive.