Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

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

“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 isRight from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told?”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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