Famous Oliver Sacks Quotes

  • I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. – Oliver Sacks

    I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.– Oliver Sacks

  • [photography]… wanted to understand, to master for myself, all the processes involved, and to manipulate them in my own way. – Oliver Sacks

    [photography]… wanted to understand, to master for myself, all the processes involved, and to manipulate them in my own way.– Oliver Sacks

  • I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential. I must focus on myself, my work, and my friends. – Oliver Sacks

    I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential. I must focus on myself, my work, and my friends.– 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

    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

  • Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it’s memory. – Oliver Sacks

    Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it’s memory.– Oliver Sacks

  • The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace– – Oliver Sacks

    The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace–– Oliver Sacks

  • Waking consciousness is dreaming -“ but dreaming constrained by external reality – Oliver Sacks

    Waking consciousness is dreaming -“ but dreaming constrained by external reality– Oliver Sacks

  • Perception is never purely in the present – it has to draw on experience of the past. – Oliver Sacks

    Perception is never purely in the present – it has to draw on experience of the past.– Oliver Sacks