Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

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

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  "Courage: the heart and spirit of every woman : reclaiming the forgotten virtue". Book by Sandra Ford Walston, 2001.

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

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  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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• There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

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  Courage, World, Plenty

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• A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.

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  Doe, Fool, Pencils

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• Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.

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  Criticism, Fine, Polish

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

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  Mistake, Errors, Refuse

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good". Book by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, 1987.

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• Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you: 'Do you want to pick door #2?' Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?

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  Doors, Games, Car

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

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  Interesting, Mouths, Found

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

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  Literature, Able, Way

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

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  Life, Education, Math

  The Reader's Digest, Vol. 140, p. 194, 1992.

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• You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

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  Wise, Intelligent, Being Wise

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

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  Succeed, Judgment, Achieve

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• Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.

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  Happiness, Success, May

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• Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You'll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too.

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  Self Esteem, Safe Environment, Pay

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• 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.

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  Sweet Love, Heart, Firsts

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• 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.

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  Literature, Firsts, Good Mood

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• If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you're never at home.

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  Home, Opportunity, Heard

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• 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.

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  Morning, Kissing, Night

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• 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.

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  Love, Gratitude, Expectations

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• Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

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  Quality, Three, Literature

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• I believe that one becomes stronger emotionally by taking life less personally. If your employer criticizes your report, don't take it personally. Instead, find out what's needed and fix it. If your girlfriend laughs at your tie, don't take it personally. Find another tie or find another girlfriend.

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  Girlfriend, Believe, Ties

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• Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.

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  Health, Positivity, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Self Esteem, Opposites, Higher

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• I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] 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.

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  Children, Believe, Intelligent

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