A Beautiful Mind Quotes

Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.

I need to believe, that something extraordinary is possible.

Good morning, eager young minds

What you don't know... is if I want to marry you.

Nash: You once said that God must be a painter because he gave us so many colors.
Alicia: I didn't think you were listening...
Nash: I was listening.

Alicia: How big is the universe?
Nash: Infinite.
Alicia: How do you know?
Nash: I know because all the data indicates it's infinite.
Alicia: But it hasn't been proven yet.
Nash: No.
Alicia: You haven't seen it.
Nash: No.
Alicia: How do you know for sure?
Nash: I don't, I just believe it.
Alicia: It's the same with love I guess.

McCarthy is an idiot. But unfortunately, that doesn't make him wrong.

Conviction, it turns out, is a luxury of those on the sidelines, Mr. Nash.

Man is capable of as much atrocity as he has imagination.

You wanted to see if I was crazy and would screw everything up if I actually won.

Nash: [Making an acceptance speech in front of the Nobel prize audience during the ceremony] I've always believed in numbers, in equations, in logic and reason.But after a lifetime of such pursuits: I ask What truly is logic? Who decides reason? My quest has taken me to the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional, and back. I have made the most important discovery of my career - the most important discovery of my life. It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found. I am only here tonight because of you
Nash:
Nash: You are the only reason I am. You are all my reasons. Thank you.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

Alicia: I was wondering Professor Nash, if I could take you to dinner?
Alicia: You do eat, don't you?

Alicia: I once tried to count them all. I, actually, made it to 4,348.
Nash: You are exceptionally odd.
Alicia: I bet you're very popular with the girls.

Hey, sweetheart, this is your papa... this my voice, my darling... don't forget what I sound like, okay?

Carl, you asshole... I saw her first!

Carl: It's strange, isn't it, to think of oneself as an assassin?
Avner: Think of yourself as something else then.

Jeanette: I have to go to bed soon. I work in the morning.
Avner: What kind of work do you do?
Jeanette: The kind that drives you to drink.
Avner: We must have the same job then.

Avner: We can't afford to be that decent anymore.
Robert: I don't know if we were ever that decent.

Every man we've killed has been replaced by worse!

God must be a painter. Why else would we have so many colors?

You don't own me. I don't exist.

It's called "life," John. Activities available; just add meaning.

Alicia: You want to know what's real? This...
Alicia: ... this is real.

It will be beautiful.

There is no peace at the end of this.

Avner: How long into pregnancy are you supposed to stop having sex?
Daphna: Labor.

Nash: Alicia, does our relationship warrant long-term commitment? I need some kind of proof, some kind of verifiable, empirical data.
Alicia: I'm sorry, just give me a moment to redefine my girlish notions of romance.

There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.

Classes will dull your mind.

She never gets old! Marcee can't be real; she never gets old!

I don't exactly know what I am required to say in order for you to have intercourse with me. But could we assume that I said all that. I mean essentially we are talking about fluid exchange right? So could we go just straight to the sex.

Find a truly original idea. It is the only way I will ever distinguish myself. It is the only way I will ever matter.

There's no point in being nuts if you can't have a little fun.

They are my past. Everyone is haunted by their past.

I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to acknowledge them. Like a diet of the mind, I just choose not to indulge certain appetites; like my appetite for patterns; perhaps my appetite to imagine and to dream.

I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logic or reasons can be found. I'm only here tonight because of you. You are the only reason I am... you are all my reasons.

This class will be a waste of your - and what is infinitely worse - my time.

If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a single one of us is going to get her. So then we go for her friends, but they will all give us the cold shoulder because no on likes to be second choice. But what if none of us goes for the blonde? We won't get in each other's way and we won't insult the other girls. It's the only way to win. It's the only way we all get laid.

I've gotten used to ignoring them and I think, as a result, they've kind of given up on me. I think that's what it's like with all our dreams and our nightmares, Martin, we've got to keep feeding them for them to stay alive.

Nash: I find you attractive. Your aggressive moves toward me... indicate that you feel the same way. But still, ritual requires that we continue with a number of platonic activities... before we have sex. I am proceeding with these activities, but in point of actual fact, all I really want to do is have intercourse with you as soon as possible.
Nash: Are you gonna slap me now?

Nash: Can you see him?
Student: Yeah.
Nash: Okay. I am always suspicious of new people. Now that I know you're real, who are you, and what can I do for you?

Hansen: So how about it, Nash? You scared?
Nash: Terrified... mortified... petrified... stupefied... by you.