“You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know.” IfsThinkingKnowsMayWorstPositionJudging Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time. The difference between an autobiography and an unauthorized biography is like the difference between an account of your life written by your mother and one written by your mother-in-law.” ThinkingYearsLongAmericaLawMotherDifferencesWrittenLong TimeAccountsEnglandDistanceMilesAutobiographyBiographiesIn-lawsLong DistanceMother In Law Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“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.” ThinkingStepsOpinionTeachLessonsProveEmptyLogicProofConclusionExcellentReasoningDependentLogicalJumpingGeometryJumping To Conclusions Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.” ThinkingHelpingLiteratureListeningBlessingBoredomConcentrationTeensTeenageListening To MusicHomeworkConcentratingTeenage Life Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.” ThinkingFirstsMotivationalMotivationLiteratureIndividualStrongGayHeterosexualityPersonal MotivationHeterosexuality Is Author: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.” ThinkingKnowsBelieveFormI BelieveLoversImitationFlatteryImitator Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.” ThinkingWayFeelingsHealthPositivity Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.” IfsThinkingWantAbleLiterature Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“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.” ThinkingTryingBelieveChildrenProblemProcessTaughtSittingIntelligentAggressivePassiveSchoolingCompulsoryIntelligent Child Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.” ThinkingMadeHouseTheoryCardsHypothesis Author:Marilyn vos Savant
