In 1959, Nash began showing clear signs of mental illness and spent several years at psychiatric hospitals being treated for paranoid schizophrenia. After 1970, his condition slowly improved, allowing him to return to academic work by the mid-1980s. His struggles with his illness and his recovery became the basis for Sylvia Nasar’s biography, A Beautiful Mind, as well as a film of the same name starring Russell Crowe.
John Nash Quotes
Below are some of the famous quotes from John 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 Nash
“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. I’m only here tonight because of you. You’re the only reason I am…you’re all my reasons.”
― John Nash
“I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.”
― John Nash
“Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.”
― John 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 Nash
“What truly is logic? Who decides reason? […] It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found.”
― John Nash
“I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.”
― John Nash
“The only thing greater than the power of the mind is the courage of the heart”
― John 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 Nash
“The Best for the Group comes when everyone in the group does what’s best for himself AND the group.”
― John Nash
“There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.”
― John Nash
“I cannot waste time in these classes and these books, memorizing the weak assumptions of lesser mortals.”
― John Nash
“I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition… Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.”
― John Nash
“It is better to have been, then not to have been, then to have been nothing at all.” What truly is logic? Who decides reason? “It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found.”-JOHN NASH JR.”
― John Nash
“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.”
― John Nash
“As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.”
― John Nash
“It’s almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another.”
― John Nash
“Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.”
― John 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 Nash
“In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.”
― John 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 Nash
“I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.”
― John Nash
I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951 as a ‘C.L.E. Moore Instructor.’ I had been an instructor at Princeton for one year after obtaining my degree in 1950. It seemed desirable more for personal and social reasons than academic ones to accept the higher-paying instructorship at M.I.T.
― John Nash
“You don’t have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.”
― John Nash
“As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly, and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to ‘Non-Cooperative Games,’ also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties.”
― John Nash
“In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.”
― John 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.”
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