Quotes from Marilyn vos Savant

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?

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.

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.

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

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

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own.

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.

Remember, time is the most precious commodity we have, and under the stresses and pressures of everyday contemporary life, we often trade it for less than its real value. Everything we do is time-consuming, but very few things are time-repaying.

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

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

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

Id rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.