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Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. -- Antisthenes
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. -- Gloria Steinem
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. -- Antisthenes
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 take nobody's word about them. -- Henry Bolingbroke
As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things. -- J. Michael Straczynski
How to get rid of having anything to unlearn. -- Antisthenes
We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars. -- Jack Gilbert
The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early. -- Seneca the Elder
Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt. -- Sathya Sai Baba
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for. -- Amy Poehler
Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be. -- Idries Shah
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. -- Alvin Toffler
It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn. -- Isaac Asimov
As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct. -- Ambeth R. Ocampo
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
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -- Alvin Toffler
Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well. -- Brian Eno
There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love. -- W. H. Auden
The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear. -- Bertrand Russell
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 the thoughts that were making you poor and replace them with new thoughts - rich thoughts. -- Jordan Belfort
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 patterns of destruction means we have to both learn new patterns and put them into practice on a global scale within the next generation. -- Rosemary Radford Ruether
Resist. Unlearn. Defy. -- Jeff Hardy
To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn -- Aristotle
Unlearn your knowledge about what WAS working to understand what is working NOW -- Roger James Hamilton
Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts. -- Sivananda
Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes. -- Eskinder Nega
Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me. -- Samantha Morton
Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can't go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I'm lucky my face can look so hideous. -- Jennifer Coolidge
I tell students, 'If you are learning from YouTube I almost don't want to teach you because what you learn from YouTube it takes 10 times as long to unlearn.' They do an approximation of the centre of the note, an approximation of the interpretation, a cloned version. -- Kiri Te Kanawa
You should do what you enjoy doing, what brings you passion. As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things. -- J. Michael Straczynski
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands. -- Moby
We must passionately learn, unlearn and relearn. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn. -- Larry Niven
Traditional ad agencies have so much to unlearn. -- Edward Boches
Let us not unlearn what we have already learned -- Diogenes
Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. -- Anthony de Mello
The only way to know is to learn, relearn and unlearn. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Once you know what's in your food you can't unlearn it. -- Vani Hari
They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn. -- John Lancaster Spalding
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning. -- Seneca the Younger
...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know. -- Sarah Dessen
Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war. -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
We spend most of our lives trying to unlearn much of what we've been taught. -- Alexandra Stoddard
It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream. -- Diane von Furstenberg
Learn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned. -- Ernst Haas
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. -- Alexander Pope
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily. -- Alan Watts
Being in Europe had helped me unlearn some of what I'd been taught or unconsciously believed. -- Lynne Tillman
Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew. -- Alexander Pope
We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves. -- Gloria Steinem
Before people can begin something new, they have to end what used to be and unlearn the old way. -- William Bridges
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All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them. -- Neil Gaiman
But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion. -- Kathleen Norris
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn"¨ all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. -- Julia Ward Howe
Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn. -- Desiderius Erasmus
I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know. -- Terry Gilliam
Knowing nothing about investing might be a benefit. You won't have to unlearn many popular beliefs propagated by Wall Street and the media that aren't true. -- Michael LeBoeuf
We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are. -- Ernst Haas
In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again. -- Alvin Toffler
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 to unlearn. -- Rajneesh
It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something... -- Oswald Chambers
Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired. -- Joshua L. Goldberg
It's a clichÃ© to state that one should think like a child, but it's clear that kids know something that the world tries to make you unlearn later in life. -- John Darnielle
I found a lot of animators bring a lot of baggage to the party, just that there's a certain way of doing things in that world that's a little hard to unlearn. -- Steve Dildarian
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 to learn, but much also to unlearn. -- John Herschel
I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought. -- Saul Williams
I really had no religious upbringing, which is unusual. But I think it saved me, because when I found the theory that I wanted to follow, I did not have anything to unlearn. -- Louise Hay
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 science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat? -- Charles Lamb

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