Auditory Quote by Robert Delaunay

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the…

— Jacques Attali

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

— Margaret Atwood

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack…

— Frank Herbert

Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I…

— Bernie Krause

What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?

— Frank Herbert

We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I…

— Joan Halifax

The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.

— Abraham Flexner

The world is full of signals that we don't perceive.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Most people think visual information is more important than aural information - like, what's this big deal about sound? And why should I bother…

— Gordon Hempton

The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

— Marlee Matlin

Not only does the modern person often think that sight is more important than sound - there's no objective evidence to indicate that. Many…

— Gordon Hempton