Unlearning Quotes

29 quotes by 21 authors

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve. — Mary McCarthy
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
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
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true — R. Buckminster Fuller
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
Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning. — Edsger Dijkstra
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
Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning. — Mark Batterson
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
Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits. — Alan Cohen
For only by unlearning Wisdom comes. — James Russell Lowell
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
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
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
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
[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
It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.' Osho — Rajneesh
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
While it has become â€œcoolâ€ for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not… — Bell Hooks
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: