Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
Marie Von Ebner-EschenbachRead
No one is so eager to gain new experiences as he who doesn't know how to make use of the old ones.
Interpretation
Those who lack experience often seek new ones instead of learning from past experiences.
This quote suggests that individuals who do not possess the ability to learn from their past are often the most eager to seek out new experiences, thinking that these new experiences will provide them with the knowledge and understanding that they lack. It implies that true wisdom comes from utilizing what we have learned previously rather than continuously chasing after novelty without reflection.
In practice
A teacher might use this quote to encourage students to learn from their mistakes.
Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servantsβ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.
Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.
One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence.
There be three kinds of unhappie men. 1. Qui scit & non docet, Hee that hath knowledge and teacheth not. 2. Qui docet & non vivit, He that teacheth, and liveth not thereafter. 3. Qui nescit, & non interrogat, He that knoweth not, and doth not enquire to understand.
Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: "I allow this moment to be as it is". And then, suddenly, where before there was irritation, there is now a sense of aliveness and peace. And out of that comes right action.
We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice
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