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Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

born 1946 United States

Marilyn vos Savant (born 11 August 1946) is an American magazine columnist and author who rose to fame through her listing in the Guinness Book of World Records under Highest IQ. The following quotes are mostly from Ask Marilyn, her Sunday column in PARADE magazine.

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

Courage: the heart and spirit of every woman : reclaiming the forgotten virtue (2001)

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

What Type Am I? : Discover Who You Really Are (1998)

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

The Reader's Digest (1992)

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

Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (1991)

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

Evergreen : A Guide to Writing with Readings (2003)

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

Perfectionism : What's Bad About Being Too Good? (1987)

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

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.

Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women (1998)

As quoted in The Truth in Words: Inspiring Quotes for the Reflective Mind (2002) by Paras, p. 92

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Marilyn vos Savant (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.