Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

Fools do not understand men of intelligence.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Words are the money of fools.

How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Words are wise men's counters—they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.