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Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair. -- Edward Young
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. -- Mark Twain
Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling. -- Horace
I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day. -- Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland
Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men. -- George Sand
He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation. -- John Adams
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure. -- Quintilian
I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself. -- C. S. Lewis
Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned -- Jane Elliott
Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups. -- Michael Shermer
To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin. -- Martin Buber
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical. -- Francis Bacon
The learned are said to have seeing eyes;The unlearned have only two sores on their faces. -- Thiruvalluvar
When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before. -- Henry David Thoreau
The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty. -- Milan Kundera
The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience. -- Karl G. Maeser
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. -- Benjamin Franklin
Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity. -- Alexander Crummell
For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime. -- Baal Shem Tov
A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting. -- Martin Luther
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain. -- Anne Grant
A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home. -- Chanakya
To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson! -- Anna Seward
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. -- Jane Austen
Blames after each failure keep lessons unlearned. When you fall, rise up quickly and learn your lessons... Blames will never make any change; applied lessons will do! -- Israelmore Ayivor
I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was raised with the Bible Belt mentality, and by coming to California, I came out of this dark place and unlearned a lot of things I'd been taught. -- Edward Ruscha
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new. -- Calvin Coolidge
Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal. -- Robert Ardrey
When you are in high school, you don't give much thought to what you can't do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life. -- Bob Goff
The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people. -- Grover Cleveland
Habits of pessimism lead to depression, wither achievement, and undermine physical health. The good news is that pessimism can be unlearned, and that with its removal depression, underachievement, and poor health can be alleviated. -- Martin Seligman
Because if we were all created idealists, then life was bound to be one relentless disappointment. But then, there was also music. We unlearned the lies with one hand and repeated them with the other. -- Nikolai Grozni

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