35 Marilyn Vos Savant Quotes

Marilyn Vos Savant is a magazine columnist from America.

In the records of the Guinness Book, a competitive category that has since been retired, Marilyn Vos Savant holds the highest recorded IQ. Since 1986, she has penned 'Ask Marilyn', a Parade magazine Sunday column, where she provides answers to readers' inquiries and solves puzzles on a variety of topics.

In 1990, this column helped make the Monty Hall problem more well-known.

Marilyn Vos Savant Quotes On Wisdom

Read these quotes from Marilyn Vos Savant to know more about wisdom!

"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."

"You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise."

"Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion."

"An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it."

Marilyn Vos Savant Quotes On Knowledge

Knowledge is gained by an experience of a situation. Read out these awesome quotes from Marilyn Vos Savant on knowledge!

"Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying."

" A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night."

"When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations."

"I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children in modern society] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there, and they are taught and told what to believe; they are passive from the very beginning – and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught."

"Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument."

"The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth."

Marilyn Vos Savant Quotes On Healing

Forgiveness, repentance, and processing lead to healing. Check out how Marilyn Vos Savant describes healing!

"If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart."

"At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since."

"Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward."

"When you're in a good mood, bring up the past. When you're in a bad mood, stick to the present. And when you're not feeling emotional at all, it's time to talk about the future."

Inspiring Marilyn Vos Savant Quotes

Inspiration leads to progressing success. Check out these amazing, inspiring quotes from Marilyn Vos Savant!

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."

"Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person."

"Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses."

"An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own."

"Remember, time is the most precious commodity we have, and under the stresses and pressures of everyday contemporary life, we often trade it for less than its real value. Everything we do is time-consuming, but very few things are time-repaying."

"What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from"."

"There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply."

"Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive."

"A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does."

"Relatively few of us will find the time-or take it-to live an ever-enlarging life"

"Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with."

"Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You'll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too."

More Marilyn Vos Savant Quotes

Check out more fantastic quotes from Marilyn Vos Savant!

"One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron."

"Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do."

"Almost all of the finer things in life are free or nearly free. You don't have to pay for the sky at night or snow in the morning or a kiss on the nose when you're sick."

"How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to anything that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if we are entitled to the labor of others, that makes slaves of those others."

"Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much."

"Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once."

"What women want is what men want. They want respect."

"The original answer defines certain conditions, […] Anything else is a different question."

"I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't."