“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
As quoted in Courage: the heart and spirit of every woman : reclaiming the forgotten virtue (2001) by Sandra Ford Walston
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Famous Marilyn vos Savant Quotes
As quoted in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women (1998) by Autumn Stephens, p. 270
“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”
As quoted in Perfectionism : What's Bad About Being Too Good? (1987) by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, p. 85
Marilyn vos Savant Quotes
As quoted in What Type Am I? : Discover Who You Really Are (1998) by Renee Baron, p. 110
As quoted in The Reader's Digest (1992) Vol. 140, p. 194
“What women want is what men want. They want respect.”
As quoted in Evergreen : A Guide to Writing with Readings (2003), by Susan Fawcett
“A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.”
As quoted in The Truth in Words: Inspiring Quotes for the Reflective Mind (2002) by Paras, p. 92
“Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.”
Attributed in Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (1991)
Source: As quoted in Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks (2007) by Karen Weekes, p. 173
“The original answer defines certain conditions, […] Anything else is a different question.”
Regarding ambiguity in her famous statement of the Monty Hall problem. "Ask Marilyn" column, Parade Magazine, 17 February 1991, p. 12.
