Unlearn Quotes

69 quotes by 62 authors

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and… — Henry Bolingbroke
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. — Antisthenes
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every day you must unlearn the ways that hold you back. You must rid yourself of negativity, so you can learn to fly. — Leon Brown
That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste. — William Hazlitt
Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much… — John Herschel
Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of… — Charles Lamb
Children can be taught meditation more easily because they are not yet spoiled. When you have been spoiled the hard work is to help you… — Rajneesh
Many of us were taught that no sentence should begin with "but." If that's what you learned, unlearn it - there's no stronger word at… — William Zinsser
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned. — Seneca the Younger
I believe in total immersion, if you want to be rich, you have to program your mind to be rich. You have to unlearn all… — Jordan Belfort
Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the… — William James
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. — Robert A. Heinlein
We do not have thousands of years to unlearn the wrong patters that were established over thousands of years. The exponential speed-up of these cumulative… — Rosemary Radford Ruether
How to get rid of having anything to unlearn. — Antisthenes
Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. — Antisthenes
He who learns death unlearns slavery. — Cornel West
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearnâ€¨ all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. — Julia Ward Howe
We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our… — Julia Ward Howe
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope

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