Marilyn vos Savant

Writer

1946-08-11

Books by Marilyn vos Savant

The power of logical thinking
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"I've forgotten everything I learned in school!"
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The world's most famous math problem
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Quotes by Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
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In my opinion, defining intelligence is much like defining beauty, and I don't mean that it's in the eye of the beholder. To illustrate, let's say that you are the only beholder, and your word is final. Would you be able to choose the 1000 most beautiful women in the country? And if that sounds impossible, consider this: Say you're now looking at your picks. Could you compare them to each other and say which one is more beautiful? For example, who is more beautiful— Katie Holmes or Angelina Jolie? How about Angelina Jolie or Catherine Zeta-Jones? I think intelligence is like this. So many factors are involved that attempts to measure it are useless. Not that IQ tests are useless. Far from it. Good tests work: They measure a variety of mental abilities, and the best tests do it well. But they don't measure intelligence itself.
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To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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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.
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In my opinion, defining intelligence is much like defining beauty, and I don't mean that it's in the eye of the beholder. To illustrate, let's say that you are the only beholder, and your word is final. Would you be able to choose the 1000 most beautiful women in the country? And if that sounds impossible, consider this: Say you're now looking at your picks. Could you compare them to each other and say which one is more beautiful? For example, who is more beautiful— Katie Holmes or Angelina Jolie? How about Angelina Jolie or Catherine Zeta-Jones? I think intelligence is like this. So many factors are involved that attempts to measure it are useless. Not that IQ tests are useless. Far from it. Good tests work: They measure a variety of mental abilities, and the best tests do it well. But they don't measure intelligence itself.
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To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
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Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
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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.
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Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.
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Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.
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While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
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When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.
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Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.
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Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
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Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.
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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.
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Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.
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I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.
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I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.
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Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
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