198 Quotes by Marilyn Vos Savant

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.

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

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

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 is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told?

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

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

It’s a sad day when so many people shirk the most basic responsibilities of life that simply being respectable becomes behavior worthy of special attention. In other words, I think the people you describe are doing what they should. A society has weak values when it regards going to work every day and taking care of your family as heroic.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.