"We speak not only to tell other people……" — Oliver Sacks

"We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought."

— Oliver Sacks

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78 Quotes by Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks has 78 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.
A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism…
Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the…
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange…
The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.
When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked…
I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because…
About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual…
Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you.…
I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of…
Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many…

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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
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That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. — Marcus Aurelius
We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans. — Alan Autry
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Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10… — Ernie Banks
I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated… — Jane Addams
Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. — Xavier Becerra
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich. — Henry Ward Beecher

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