Brain Quotes by Oliver Sacks

Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of…

— Oliver Sacks

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.

— Oliver Sacks

In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.

— Oliver Sacks

“One does not see with the eyes; one sees with the brain, which has dozens of different systems for analyzing the input…

— Oliver Sacks

Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.

— Oliver Sacks

The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people.

— Oliver Sacks

About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.

— Oliver Sacks

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.

— Oliver Sacks

With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the…

— Oliver Sacks

It seems that the brain always has to be active, and if the auditory parts of the brain are not getting sufficient…

— Oliver Sacks

Although I think it is wonderful to have the whole world of music available in something that small and to have it…

— Oliver Sacks

I think the brain is a dynamic system in which some parts control or suppress other parts. And if perhaps one has…

— Oliver Sacks

Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts…

— Oliver Sacks

“...when the brain is released from the constraints of reality, it can generate any sound, image, or smell in its repertoire, sometimes…

— Oliver Sacks

There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding…

— Oliver Sacks

In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the…

— Oliver Sacks

The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally…

— Oliver Sacks

Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of…

— Oliver Sacks

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of…

— Oliver Sacks

“an octopus may have half a billion nerve cells distributed between its brain and its “arms” (a mouse, by comparison, has only…

— Oliver Sacks

Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer…

— Oliver Sacks