We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

—Marilyn vos Savant

About Marilyn vos Savant

Marilyn vos Savant ( VOSS sə-VAHNT; born Marilyn Mach; August 11, 1946) is an American magazine columnist who has the highest recorded intelligence quotient (IQ) in the Guinness Book of Records, a competitive category the publication has since retired. Since 1986, she has written "Ask Marilyn", a Parade magazine Sunday...

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

—Marilyn vos Savant

More quotations tagged with “wisdom”

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

—Marcel Proust

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

—Mahatma Gandhi

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

—John Stuart Mill

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

—James Boswell

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

—Immanuel Kant

History

11 Jul 2015 Added