Top 100 To Unlearn Quotes
#1. It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.
Isaac Asimov
#2. To design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap
Alain De Botton
#3. I grew up with absolutely no religion at all, and it was probably one of the best things that happened to me. I didn't have to unlearn anything.
Louise Hay
#4. Our natural state is trust
in ourselves
in others
until we learn differently
then we hurt as we try to unlearn it
until it dawns on our hearts that if we live and act with pure intent
we do not need trust.
Cathrine Lodoen
#5. Learn so carefully in life,learning is tough not impossible But if once you learn wrong then its almost impossible to unlearn
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#6. 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
#7. The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.
Gloria Steinem
#8. In my family, you can rot to hell on the inside as long as you're flawless on the outside, which is really sick, but also hard to unlearn.
Laura Wiess
#9. We are so trained in the thought system of fear and attack that we get to the point where natural thinking - love - feels unnatural and unnatural thinking - fear - feels natural. It takes real discipline and training to unlearn the thought system of fear.
Marianne Williamson
#11. I do wonder, sometimes, if I had had a daughter, how I would have brought her up. How - when it's taken me so long to unlearn the things I believe are most damaging to the cause of women's liberation and equality - would I have raised my daughter to disobey?
Mona Eltahawy
#12. The most valuable skill we can learn in our lives is to unlearn what is untrue.
Antisthenes
#13. To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
Robert A. Heinlein
#14. A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
Alan W. Watts
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. It is not difficult to learn a new idea, but it is almost impossible to unlearn an old one.
Debasish Mridha
#19. When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned!"
Diogenes Laertius
#20. I wanted to teach my daughter the same things I had to unlearn after years spent as a corporate lawyer: that soul is more important than money, that love means more than material things. (James Griffioen)
Heather B. Armstrong
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Unfortunately, it will take more than one conversation to unlearn the lies we learned growing up. We learned those lies situation by situation, and I am afraid we'll have to unlearn them the same way.
Barb Raveling
#25. 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
#26. How to get rid of having anything to unlearn.
Antisthenes
#27. With mindfulness there is more to unlearn than there is to learn.
Michael H. Brooks
#28. Just know that it takes a bit of courage to unlearn that shame, and to be there for others when they try to unlearn that shame, and that it all gets easier after you feel how healthy it is.
Hugh Howey
#29. But these trees don't grow impatiently. They move with a grace, with patience, with trust. There is no hurry anywhere else except in your mind. If you really want to be in a state of peace and joy, you will have to unlearn your old habit for achieving things quickly
Osho
#30. I am trying to unlearn many lessons of gender I internalized while growing up. But I sometimes still feel vulnerable in the face of gender expectations.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#31. This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.
Paul Polman
#32. 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
#33. We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.
Gloria Steinem
#34. Slowly we are learning,
We at least know this much,
That we have to unlearn
Much that we were taught,
And are growing chary
Of emphatic dogmas;
Love like Matter is much
Odder than we thought.
W. H. Auden
#35. Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't go to school. They get to stay up past their bedtime. They get candy and presents for doing nothing. Childhood utopia.
Jim Gaffigan
#36. I love my life because a part of me has learned how to give up hope, and that, I suspect, is a dangerous lesson to unlearn.
Joel Derfner
#37. Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.
Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
#38. It is very easy to learn intolerance and unlearn tolerance, but difficult to unlearn intolerance,
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#39. 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
#40. It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for. It takes years to find your voice and seize your real estate.
Amy Poehler
#41. 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
#43. 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
#44. The way to find your own North Star is not to think or feel your way
forward but to dissolve the thoughts and feeling that make you miserable.
You don't have to learn your destiny
you already know it; you just have to unlearn the thoughts that blind you to what you know.
Martha Beck
#45. The challenge for a mentee is not only to learn what he doesn't know, but also to unlearn what he thinks he knows.
Orrin Woodward
#46. For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#47. A new medium always has a period when it is struggling inside the confining box of an earlier medium. Creators have to unlearn what they knew before they can see the fresh, uncharted vistas stretching before them.
Dave Morris
#48. The child is aware of unlimited potential, and this munificence is one of the joys of creativity.
Those of use who struggle in our own ways, small or great, trickles or rivers, to create, are constantly having to unlearn what the world would teach us...
Madeleine L'Engle
#49. Acting was all about making yourself feel things-love,rage,euphoria,agony. She had to unlearn those things now. She had to teach herself not to feel. Refusing to feel hurt also meant she numbed herself to joy, but the sacrifice was worth it.
Susan Wiggs
#50. Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.
Eskinder Nega
#52. Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.
Antisthenes
#53. 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
#54. It's not hard to create self-beliefs that produce a successful and happy life. The main job is to unlearn your limiting beliefs.
Maddy Malhotra
#55. We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live.
Felix Adler
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#60. 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
#61. When negotiations are at an impasse, when States dig their heels in, it is time to 'undig' them in a spirit of compromise. We all need to unlearn the predator in us, unlearn discrimination, unlearn privilege.
Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
#62. 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
#63. Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.
Larry Niven
#64. If you are well educated, and especially if you are a health professional, you will have to unlearn much of what you've been taught and start afresh with the rather disruptive thought that natural healing may actually work.
Andrew Saul
#65. Rookie smarts isn't an age or an experience level; it is state of mind - one that is available to those willing to unlearn and relearn. It is also a choice. As
Liz Wiseman
#66. One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It's hard to unlearn such hierarchy, to undo such control. It's implicit.
Cliff James
#67. Traditional ad agencies have so much to unlearn.
Edward Boches
#68. Jesse swallowed and looked around the field. Roe could see him struggling with his thoughts, trying to put them in a coherent order. "It takes me a long time to learn things," he told Roe finally. "When I learn 'em, I try to hold on real tight. It's kindy scary for me to try to unlearn 'em.
Pamela Morsi
#69. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.
Charles Bukowski
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Antisthenes
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. Unlearn your knowledge about what WAS working to understand what is working NOW
Roger James Hamilton
#76. Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.
Idries Shah
#77. Neither of us seemed able to be close to
anyone. Not even each other. Closeness
meant the one you loved the most would
cause you the most damage. How did you
unlearn that? It was woven deep between
every fiber and vessel. You couldn't cut it
out.
Lisa Kleypas
#78. 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
#79. To be knowledgeable, learn new things every day; to be wise, unlearn things that you learn with wit and love.
Debasish Mridha
#80. Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
Anthony De Mello
#81. Love isn't something you can just unlearn ... no matter who you are, or who you're born to, or how much it's not returned - - Elephant Girl
Jane Devin
#82. 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
#83. Before people can begin something new, they have to end what used to be and unlearn the old way.
William Bridges
#84. You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.
Sarah Dessen
#85. Oh, my faith has flagged at times. It's easy to fall back into the same routines and paint over the sublime with coat after coat of indifference ... I promise you something: when you have touched the face of God, you can never unlearn what you have learned. You can never unsee what you have seen.
Garth Stein
#86. Intelligence is what we learn.
Wisdom is what we unlearn.
J.R. Rim
#87. We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.
Jack Gilbert
#88. Time when learning how to learn (and unlearn) is central to success. Instead of hiding from change, let's embrace it. Each time we try something new, we get better at getting better. Experience builds competence and confidence, so we're ready for the big changes, like re-thinking what we do.
Peter Morville
#89. Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have to innovate, or at the very least create your own path into the process.
Carrie Brownstein
#90. The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.
Willa Cather
#91. 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
#92. As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life. It is never isolated, or simply added as treasure to our stock. When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
Henry David Thoreau
#93. 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 Saraswati
#94. We unlearn the art of speaking well when we cease to speak with God.
John Calvin
#95. In times of tumult and transition the best leaders know when it is time to stop, unlearn, and relearn.
Liz Wiseman
#96. It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.
Charles Caleb Colton
#97. We can't unlearn what we already know and there are only two ways to beat the curse, the first is not to learn anything, the second is to transform our ideas.
Chip Heath
#99. Did I seek where the wind bites keenest, learn to live where no one lives, in the desert where only the polar bear lives, unlearn to pray and curse, unlearn man and god, become a ghost flitting across the glaciers?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#100. The only person who is spiritually smart is the one who has learned how to learn, unlearn, and change directions instantly, and start all over again, if your soul calls for it.
Michelle Casto
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