Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.

I've never found an interesting person with a foul mouth.

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.

If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.

Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.

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

Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if we are entitled to the labor of others, that makes slaves of those others.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

The lower our self-esteem, the more we're attracted to our opposite, and the higher our self-esteem, the more we are attracted to another like ourselves.

Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news

Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.

An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.

Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.

I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

What women want is what men want. They want respect.

Almost all of the finer things in life are free or nearly free. You don't have to pay for the sky at night or snow in the morning or a kiss on the nose when you're sick. Forgetting that may put you at the mercy of those who seek to profit by convincing you to want whatever it is they have to sell.

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.

Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors.

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own

Try square dancing-at least long enough to no longer feel silly and begin to have fun.

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.

Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

I love having ten times as much stuff to do as I can possibly find time to do. That way, I can pick the one-tenth that I want to do most. But if I only have enough to just occupy all my time, I'm stuck doing all of whatever stuff it happens to be.

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

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.

If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.