Learning And Unlearning Quotes

#1. Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and beyond dharma is nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

#2. We don't have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal. Things like unemployment, which the youth are suffering from, and the rate of inflation - these are chronic conditions and we have to solve them.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#3. Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

Alan Cohen

#4. It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.' Osho

Osho

#5. No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'

J.C. Ryle

#6. The past, rich with it's pains and joys, shuffles before me, relieving the weary dullness of endless days. I rejoice; I agonize.

Rukhsana Ahmad

#7. If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

Minor White

#8. Enlightenment is not about knowing as much as it is about unknowing; it is not so much learning as unlearning. It is about surrendering and letting go rather than achieving and possessing. It's more about entering the mystery than arriving at a mental certitude.

Richard Rohr

#9. Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism ...

Terry Eagleton

#10. 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 storm.

Jerry Saltz

#11. The secret of meditation is the art of unlearning. Mind is learning; meditation is unlearning: that is - die constantly to your experience; let it not imprison you; experience becomes a dead weight in the living and flowing, riverlike consciousness.

Rajneesh

#12. 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 that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible.

Edsger Dijkstra

#13. I don't categorize things merely to simplify my understanding. I'd rather delve into the process of unlearning.

Nikhil Sharda

#14. There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.

Naomi Watts

#15. Courage is only needed once the war begins.

Amish Tripathi

#16. Yes, transformation is often more about unlearning than learning, which is why the religious traditions call it "conversion" or "repentance.

Richard Rohr

#17. It is the evil mind that gets first hold on all of us. Learning virtue means unlearning vice. We

Seneca.

#18. Theater, I suppose, is a form of mass mesmerism, and if that's the case, Shakespeare, despite his chemical shortcomings, was surely one of the greatest hypnotists who ever lived.

Alan Bradley

#19. Our souls are always looking for love, and hearts wait to treasure it.

Munia Khan

#20. I think it takes time to find your natural style and learn not to be swayed by trends that might not flatter you.

Martine McCutcheon

#21. My dear, dear Friend; and in thy voice I catch
The language of my former heart, and read
My former pleasures in the shooting lights
Of thy wild eyes. Oh! yet a little while
May I behold in thee what I was once ...

William Wordsworth

#22. You see, unlearning is a very important process towards becoming enlightened, because in this life you will have learned wrong ways and those wrong ways that you have learned are barriers blocking you from becoming who you really are, therefore it is vital that they are unlearned.

Andrew James Pritchard

#23. I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Oscar Wilde

#24. Education is a process of unlearning and learning.

Debasish Mridha

#25. Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

Edsger Dijkstra

#26. The professor argues against measuring effectiveness in the shallow short-term in the "fierce humanities," for teaching that seeks not merely learning, but unlearning, that seeks to unsettle knowledge and assumptions in ways more fundamental than any exam can or should test.

Cary Nelson

#27. Most arguments are about programming; most resolutions are reached through a process of unlearning then relearning.

Oli Anderson

#28. I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#29. Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning.

Orrin Woodward

#30. Caring about a person is like praying to a doughnut in the darkness.

Crispin Best

#31. Knowledge grows, and simultaneously it becomes obsolete as reality changes. Understanding involves both learning new knowledge and discarding obsolete and misleading knowledge. The discarding activity--unlearning--is as important a part of understanding as is adding new knowledge.

Bo Hedberg

#32. I doubt that I could create a character I loathed simply because when a character takes life, it is impossible not to be a little amazed by the phenomenon, and to find that the amazement has something of the quality of delight.

Marilynne Robinson

#33. Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

Mark Batterson