Characteristics Quote by John Forbes Nash

I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.

— Albert Schweitzer

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't…

— John Perry Barlow

In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research in the…

— Jacob Needleman

It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality…

— Thomas Jefferson

Now I must arrive at the time of my change from scientific rationality of thinking into the delusional thinking characteristic of persons... But I…

— John Nash

Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?

— Alan Sokal

In me, speaking psychologically, there is always an ongoing struggle between my enormously self-regarding, almost delusionally aspirational, Napoleonic personality and a marginalized one.

— Mark Leyner

When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff negative notions, toxic relationships,…

— Anonymous

When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. All the world conspires to oppose and contradict me; though such…

— David Hume

Through the years, through my own conversations, through my own weird obsessions, I think I have developed some very deep politics of political knowledge…

— Steve Kornacki

“By the time I left college, I realized I'd never be happy unless I undid a lifetime of conformist conditioning. Thus, I reversed my…

— Daniel Price