Marilyn vos Savant: Quotes about thinking

Marilyn vos Savant is US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer. Explore interesting quotes on thinking.

Marilyn vos Savant: 26 quotes 35 likes

“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?”

Marilyn vos Savant

Children , School , Intelligence , Problem

“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.”

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Love , Lovers , Thinking

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

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

Thinking , Housing