All Oliver Sacks Quotes
- A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain. Brain
- I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given… Been
- I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living. Dying
- I rejoice when I meet gifted young people... I feel the future is in good hands. Feel
- Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and… Adventure
- I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential. Clear
- I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can Deepest
- Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement Bonding
- I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions. All
- Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain. Adaptability
- If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm… Beauty
- There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients. Acute
- It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and… Adversity
- First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience. First Thing
- ... the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably, there. This unquestionability… All
- For 'wellness', naturally, is no cause for complaint - people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain… Become Suspicious
- Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built… Aberration
- I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable language (and community… Community
- Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives - we are each of us unique. Biologically
- I cannot pretend i am not without fear… Cannot Pretend