The length of your education is less important than it's breadth, and the length of your life is less important than it's depth.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
Question: "What is the essence of our America?"
Answer: "The essence of our America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.' "
-- Marilyn vos Savant
Question: "What is the difference between a hypothesis and a theory?"
Answer: "Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses."
-- Marilyn vos Savant
. . what women want is what men want. They want respect.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he's caused you.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
I’d rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you're never at home.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
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.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the group. In the garden of life, some people are more like flowers, and other people are more like weeds
-- Marilyn vos Savant
Relatively few of us will find the time--or take it--to live an ever enlarging life.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses
-- Marilyn vos Savant
Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
The magnitude of an action may change not only the strength of its impact, but the direction. If you became a dentist, for example, you would certainly be an asset to our society. But what if everyone became a dentist? Who would bake the bread? Who would build the houses?
-- Marilyn vos Savant
There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
One cannot inherit a talent for the violin – there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering
-- Marilyn vos Savant
... Everyone knows we need schoolteachers and nurses, and we all love to recognize the individual genius--philosopher or mathematician. But the occupational group most responsible for modern society is engineers, who should win a 'most underappreciated' award ....
-- Marilyn vos Savant
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