Unlearning Quotes
29 quotes by 21 authors
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A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.
— Mary McCarthy
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The secret of meditation is the art of unlearning. Mind is learning; meditation is unlearning: that is - die constantly to your experience; let it…
— Rajneesh
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One does not think during creative work, any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years - learning,…
— Edward Weston
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I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of…
— Robert Bringhurst
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Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
— Edsger Dijkstra
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Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring…
— Mark Batterson
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Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.
— Mark Batterson
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We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.
— Alan Cohen
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For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.
— James Russell Lowell
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Zen is a kind of unlearning. It teaches you how to drop that which you have learned, how to become unskillful again, how to become…
— Rajneesh
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The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun…
— Cathy Davidson
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Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the…
— Jerry Saltz
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind…
— C.S. Lewis
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It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.' Osho
— Rajneesh
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But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It…
— Alan Watts
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While it has become “cool†for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not…
— Bell Hooks
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Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they…
— Bell Hooks
Who Wrote These Unlearning Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 29 Unlearning Quotes as follows: