Marilyn Vos Savant
Born 1946
From St. Louis, Missouri, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes nonfiction
Marilyn vos Savant is an American magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright. She was listed as having the highest recorded intelligence quotient (IQ) in the Guinness Book of Records, a competitive category the publication has since retired.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_vos_Savant
Quotes
“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”
p. 85 “A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.”
p. 110 “A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.”
p. 92 “Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.”
Attributed in Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Hawaii International Conference on “The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.”
p. 194
Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Books by Marilyn Vos Savant in order
Books by Marilyn Vos Savant in the order they were published, from Omni I.Q. Quiz Contest (1985) to Growing Up (2002).
- 1Omni I.Q. Quiz Contest
Omni I.Q. Quiz Contest1985 - 2Brain Building
Brain Building1990 - 3Brain Power
Brain Power1990 - 4Ask Marilyn
Ask Marilyn1992 - 5The World's Most Famous Math Problem
The World's Most Famous Math Problem1993 - 6"I'Ve Forgotten Everything I Learned in School!"
"I'Ve Forgotten Everything I Learned in School!"1994 - 7More Marilyn
More Marilyn1994 - 8Of Course I'm for Monogamy
Of Course I'm for Monogamy1996 - 9The Power of Logical Thinking
The Power of Logical Thinking1996 - 10The Art of Spelling
The Art of Spelling2000 - 11Growing Up
Growing Up2002