John Forbes Nash, Jr. Quotes
I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
-
I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.
-
I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.
-
I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.
-
The good part is if I play a solid round of golf, it will be very hard for the others to beat me. And that's all I'm thinking about.
-
In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
-
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
-
There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
-
Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.
-
People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
-
We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.
-
There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.
-
As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.
-
It's not like what I do or what I wear is my copyright. What I'm wearing now also is an inspiration. It is how I saw it on the mannequin, and I just wore it, so it's in a way copied. But obviously, I wouldn't want to spend my life thinking about dresses. It is such a waste of life.
-
I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
-
The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.
-
Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!
-
I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.
-
You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters, and Nature destroyers. We can't get there, kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder precedent up their venerable sleeves. So isn't disobedience the challenge of our age? Principled, inventive, escalating disobedience to liberate our souls, to transfigure our work as humans on this Earth.
-
When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me.
-
I've done a few face palms after things I've said because it's stupid. But if I'm not like that, I won't feel human anymore. I'll just feel like some robot saying what I'm supposed to say. I think that's when people lose it.
-
With few words, one can speak the truth.
-
It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state of order again; for the nature of mundane affairs not allowing them to continue in an even course, when they have arrived at their greatest perfection, they soon begin to decline.
-
I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.
