Robert Delaunay Quotes

Hearing is a form of touch. I could hear less through the ears but more through the body.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.

Science is expanding, and with it our vision of the universe. although this new and constantly changing view may not always give us comfort, it does have the virtue of truth according to our most effective resources for acquiring knowledge. No philosophy, moral outlook, or religion can be inconsistent with the findings of science and hope to endure among educated people.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to take it in. 'You're not special. That's how I receive it too... I tried to taste it, but it did not work'.

There are 20,000 million books I could have to read, but I can pick the ones and know that I'm learning something that I didn't know before. That's the glory of writing. It's not even so much the writing, it's what you learn - especially history - because so much of it is research.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

When I am willing, all sound is available to me.

Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. There is a great potential within each of us to go on learning. Regardless of our age, unless there be serious illness, we can read, study, drink in the writings of wonderful men and women. It is never too late to learn.

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production; to make mind master over matter.

We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.