Marilyn Vos Savant Quotes

Marilyn vos Savant is an American magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright. She was listed as having the highest recorded intelligence quotient (IQ) in the Guinness Book of Records, a competitive category the publication has since retired. Since 1986, she has written "Ask Marilyn", a Parade magazine Sunday column where she solves puzzles and answers questions on various subjects. Among them was a discussion of the Monty Hall problem, which she postulated an answer in 1990. ...more

Birth: August 11, 1946

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

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

Topic(s): Inspirational , Motivational , Success

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

Topic(s): Way , Able , Literature

Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn’t embarrassed that he or she asked.

Topic(s): Persons , Able , Dating

The lower our self-esteem, the more we’re attracted to our opposite, and the higher our self-esteem, the more we are attracted to another like ourselves.

Topic(s): Self , Higher , Opposites

Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.

Topic(s): States , Office , Sea

Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

Topic(s): Able , Three , Quality

If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you’re never at home.

Topic(s): Ifs , Home , Opportunity

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

Topic(s): Doe , Fool , Pencils

Be able to recognize when you’re reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

Topic(s): Able , Reading , Sides

A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he’s caused you.

Topic(s): Sides , Trouble , Friendship

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

Topic(s): Important , Life , Life Is

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