John Forbes Nash Jr. Quotes

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

I always liked numbers.

Without numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhibit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.

Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be reach. 2. That aspect of education (beyond mere literacy) which takes account of quantitative aspects of reality.

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

You have to think with the heart.

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

The most important thing is they have to know why we do things and when. A lot of players are playing intuitively, and I want them to think and know why they do something.

When I was 16, I didn't really know what intuition was as a word, even. It's one of those things you experience, but you don't really know what it is.

Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything.

To know is not less than to feel.

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

Something is happening. I sense a change in the wind…a mutual understanding of each other. I haven’t felt this way in forever.

The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.

I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making