Top 64 Quotes About Unlearned
#1. Just as He had done with David, Samuel, and Joseph of the Old Testament, God took an innocent, unlearned boy, one still unsullied by the world and pliable to His divine will, and molded and shaped him into His chosen prophet.
M. Russell Ballard
#2. Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
Anne Grant
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Even if it should happen to be a rhyme not suited for every one's ears. I unlearned long ago to have consideration for long ears.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. MONTAIGNE
Sogyal Rinpoche
#7. A simple creature unlettyrde. Julian of Norwich called herself.
The most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. Echoed Jane Austen - four hundred years afterward.
David Markson
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.
Martin Buber
#11. 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
#12. Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.
George Sand
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public.
Isaac D'Israeli
#17. The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
Quintilian
#18. Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.
Horace
#19. When you see something, it can't be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can never be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that can never be unlearned. And the part of my world that is altered will never be the same.
Cecelia Ahern
#20. Sometimes, when we don't learn a lesson in life, it pops up repeatedly until we do. Might this person be giving you an opportunity to learn an unlearned lesson from the past? What lesson(s) might that be?
Liisa Kyle
#21. Don't be proud of what you know, and don't be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as from the learned. Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.
Barbara De Angelis
#22. Thank Goodness I have nearly
unlearned
folding my desire into itself
being afraid to claim it.
Yrsa Daley-Ward
#23. The pretty girls get all the good stuff. Oh, God. So not true. I unlearned this after years of coaching beautiful clients. Yes, these lovelies get preferential treatment in most life scenarios, but there's a catch: While everyone's looking at them, virtually no one sees them.
Martha Beck
#24. He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.
John Adams
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.
Alexander Crummell
#28. Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
Francis Bacon
#29. For the unlearned man knows not what it is to descend into himself, or to call himself to account, nor the pleasure of that suavissima vita, indies sentire se fieri meliorem.
Francis Bacon
#30. The learned are said to have seeing eyes;The unlearned have only two sores on their faces.
Thiruvalluvar
#31. We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.
Raymond Williams
#32. 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
#33. Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned
Jane Elliott
#34. Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws yet. Therefore, things must be learned only to be unlearned again or, more likely, to be corrected.
Richard P. Feynman
#35. This is much easier than when N left. Our son is unable to grasp and simultaneously turn doorknobs yet. If only this trick could be unlearned by men over thirty, many more families would celebrate Christmas together.
Suzanne Finnamore
#37. Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don't talk how persons ought to eat, but
eat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation.
Epictetus
#38. How can we give if there is nothing there? ... Support and understanding cannot come from the emotionally starved. Teaching cannot come from the unlearned. And most important of all, spiritual guidance cannot come from the spiritually weak.
Marion G. Romney
#39. Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners.
Martin Luther
#40. Experience can never be undone, or knowledge unlearned.
Ronald Frame
#41. 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
#42. The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
Benjamin Franklin
#43. I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself.
C.S. Lewis
#44. Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain
#45. The mind unlearned in reverence, says Bonaventure (1221-1274), is in danger of becoming so captivated by the spectacle of beings as to be altogether forgetful of being in itself; and our mechanistic approach to the world is nothing but ontological obliviousness translated into a living tradition.
David Bentley
#47. All the games were selected for them by supervisors and had to have some useful, educational purpose. The children learned these new games but unlearned something else in the process: they forgot to be happy, how to take pleasure in little things and last, but not least, how to dream
Michael Ende
#48. The poor man yields to the rich, the plebeian to the noble, the servant to the master, the unlearned to the learned, and yet every one inwardly cherishes some idea of his own superiority.
John Calvin
#49. Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups.
Michael Shermer
#50. Children who had difficulty in learning basic skills were to be given special instruction to remedy those weak or unlearned skills.
Dave Pelzer
#51. There is nothing I hold so cheap as a learned man , except an unlearned one .
Horace Walpole
#52. The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.
Karl G. Maeser
#53. An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.
William James
#54. those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed, for salvation, are so clearly propounded, and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them.[219]
Anonymous
#55. Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
Seneca The Younger
#56. 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
#57. For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime.
Baal Shem Tov
#58. And yet what has been learned can be unlearned.
Anneli Rufus
#59. Unraveling life lessons from just the past few years would take many more years. Lessons unlearned would pass with me, when I went through that door, to be completed in some future lifetime.
Laurie Nadel
#60. Unlearned men of books assume the care,
As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
Edward Young
#61. Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#62. A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.
Martin Luther
#63. Regrets of the past can be turned into seeds to grow a more positive future or unlearned, doomed to repeat the same.
Tambre Bryant
#64. I'm not sure what is worse, a closed mind or a closed book.
Anthony Liccione