Oliver Sacks Patient Quotations

First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience.

I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive, disoriented, and out of it.

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.