Marilyn vos Savant (b.1946) is an American magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright who rose to fame through her former listing in the Guinness Book of World Records under “Highest IQ.” Since 1986 she has written “Ask Marilyn,” a Parade magazine Sunday column where she solves puzzles and answers questions on various subjects.
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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
—Marilyn vos Savant
Success is achieved by development of our strengths, not by elimination of our weakness.
—Marilyn vos Savant
Topics: Achieve, Success, Love, Weakness
There’s plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.
—Marilyn vos Savant
Topics: Courage
What women want is what men want. They want respect.
—Marilyn vos Savant
Topics: Respect
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
—Marilyn vos Savant
Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.
—Marilyn vos Savant
Topics: Attention
Relatively few of us will find the time—or take it—to live an ever enlarging life.
—Marilyn vos Savant
Topics: Vision, Life
Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.
—Marilyn vos Savant
Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows
—Marilyn vos Savant
Topics: Weather
Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.
—Marilyn vos Savant
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