Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

The original answer defines certain conditions, [...] Anything else is a different question.

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

— Marilyn vos Savant

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.

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

— Marilyn vos Savant

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

— Marilyn vos Savant

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Marilyn vos Savant