Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.

— John Forbes Nash

John Forbes Nash Quotes

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

— John Forbes Nash
Creativity

I’ve made the most important discovery of my life. It’s only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found.

— John Forbes Nash

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

— John Forbes Nash

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions to any given problem.

— John Forbes Nash

Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.

— John Forbes Nash

In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.

— John Forbes Nash

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a ‘normal’ person.

— John Forbes Nash

It’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month’s dress.

— John Forbes Nash
Lonely

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.

— John Forbes Nash
Math

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

— John Forbes Nash

Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.

— John Forbes Nash

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

— John Forbes Nash

I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.

— John Forbes Nash

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.

— John Forbes Nash

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

— John Forbes Nash

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

— John Forbes Nash
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