32 Quotes by John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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.

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

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

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

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.

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.

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.

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

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