The best Quotes by Marilyn vos Savant

The best Quotes by Marilyn vos Savant

Marilyn vos Savant (August 11, 1946) is an American magazine columnist. Since 1986, she has written "Ask Marilyn", a Parade magazine Sunday column wherein she solves puzzles and answers questions on various subjects.

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

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

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

Knowledge Wisdom

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.

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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Ethel: "One day the entire family will be reunited in the Garden of Eden."
"Oh, like heaven?"
Ethel: "No, it's in Missouri."
"Oh. Eden's got a lot of methheads."

Shameless - Season 2 Episode 5

Did you know only one US president has been born in Missouri?
It's true, man.

Harry S. Truman Missouri

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Missouri - and that's pretty much the same thing.

And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up!

Alfred in Batman - Begins

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Giving Up Beginning

There's winning and there's losing - and in life both will happen. What is never acceptable to me is quitting.

Magic Johnson

19

Ambition Giving Up

I really think everyone should be important enough to just one other person on this freaking planet to be fought for. Even me. And nobody’s fighting for me. So I’m done.

Ka Hancock in Dancing on Broken Glass

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Breakup Giving Up Solitude & Loneliness

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas Edison

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Work Giving Up Beginning

As soon as you're going to give up, everyone is going to give up on you.

Donatas Motiejūnas (Litauischer Basketballer der für Houston Rockets spielte)

6

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Rose Kennedy

Learning School

I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago... but I admire the sadism.

Wednesday Addams in Wednesday - Season 1 Episode 1

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School High School

The merry laughter of little innocent children wending their way to school. Thirsty little minds rushing to the fountain of knowledge.

Honest John in Pinocchio

I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.

Natalie Portman

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School Bullying

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.

Albert Einstein

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Knowledge Imagination Criminal Minds

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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Humanity Desire Knowledge Feelings & Emotions

Knowing where you're going can be confusing. Trust your instincts.

Alice In Wonderland

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The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

6

Knowledge Intelligence

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Thomas Aquinas

5

Wisdom is the offspring of suffering and time.

Izaro in Path of Exile

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

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Knowledge Society Science Wisdom

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

Bill Clinton

Strength Wisdom

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

Kenny Rogers

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Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

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There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

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