None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.

Quote by Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the...

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the...

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

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

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

Imaginary evils are incurable

Imaginary evils are incurable

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

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

Conquer, but don't triumph.

Conquer, but don't triumph.

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

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

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

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

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

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

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

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

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

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

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish...

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish...

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost...

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost...