Marilyn vos Savant:
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Marilyn vos Savant: Citations en anglais
“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
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
“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
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
“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.
