WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 12 May 2026 20:58:01 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg refute – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von -- Aphorisms [Aphorismen], No. 4 (1880) [tr. Scrase/Mieder (1994)] https://wist.info/von-ebner-eschenbach-marie/77546/ https://wist.info/von-ebner-eschenbach-marie/77546/#respond Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:11:33 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=77546 A judgment can be refuted, but never a prejudice.

[Ein Urtheil läßt ſich widerlegen, aber niemals ein Vorurtheil.]


Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) Austrian writer
Aphorisms [Aphorismen], No. 4 (1880) [tr. Scrase/Mieder (1994)]
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(Source (German)). Alternate translation:

An opinion can be controverted; a prejudice, never.
[tr. Wister (1883)]

 ]]> https://wist.info/von-ebner-eschenbach-marie/77546/feed/ 0 77546 Washington, George -- Letter to William Livingston (7 Dec 1779) https://wist.info/washington-george/34446/ https://wist.info/washington-george/34446/#respond Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:23:03 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=34446 To persevere in one’s duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny.


George Washington (1732–1799) American military leader, Founding Father, US President (1789–1797)
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