Unlearn Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Real, Knowledge, Principles

  "Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs". Book by Adam Woolever, 1891.

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• 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

  Soul, Steps, Spirit

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• 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

  Passion, Kids, Thinking

  "Q&A: Changeling Writer J. Michael Straczynski". Interview with Gilbert Cruz, content.time.com. October 23, 2008.

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• Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Hate, Practice, Vocabulary

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jan 10, 2017

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• Let us not unlearn what we have already learned

  Diogenes

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• It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.

  Isaac Asimov

  Learning, Accepting, Theory

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• 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

  Clouds, Trials, Want

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.440, Discovery House

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• 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

  Mean, Years, Practice

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• Many of us were taught that no sentence should begin with "but." If that's what you learned, unlearn it - there's no stronger word at the start. It announces a total contrast with what has gone before, and the reader is thereby primed for the change.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Stronger, Taught

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• 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

  Doubt, Increase, Simultaneous

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• He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority. His very talents will be a hindrance to him.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Children, Poetry, Mind

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• Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

  Idries Shah

  Thinking, Meditation, Might

  Idries Shah (1988). “Caravan of Dreams”, p.229, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Before people can begin something new, they have to end what used to be and unlearn the old way.

  William Bridges

  People, Way, Something New

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• 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

  Healing, May, Health Professionals

  Source: www.drpasswater.com

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• We, women of one country,
  Will be too tender of those of another country
  To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Country, Son, Carnage

  Julia Ward Howe (1871). “Proceedings of a peace meeting held at Union league hall, New York, December 23rd, 1870, for the purpose of free consultation on the subject of a woman's peace congress for the world, as proposed by ... Julia Ward Howe”, p.30

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• It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Errors, Habit

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.13

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• The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need. In other words, the less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be... the key to faster learning is to use appropriate effort. Greater effort can exacerbate faulty patterns of action. Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. Learning something new often requires us to unlearn something old.

  Tony Buzan

  Learning, Successful, Thinking

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• 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

  Simplicity, Should, Chiefs

  "All Things Considered". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn love, and even more startling, that there is also nothing one can do to unlearn it, or to keep oneself from being loved. This is a religious awakening that is utterly different from any other religious experience, no matter how profoundly spiritual it may seem.

  Mike Mason

  Love, Spiritual, Religious

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• 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

  Children, Hard Work, Meditation

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• We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.

  Gloria Steinem

  Education, Needs, Self Education

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.158, Open Road Media

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• Resist. Unlearn. Defy.

  Jeff Hardy

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• It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for.

  Amy Poehler

  Sorry, Healing, Years

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

  Knowledge, Delay, Height

  Desiderius Erasmus (1974). “The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1 to 141, 1484-1500”, p.114, University of Toronto Press

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• 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

  God, Lying, World

  Essays "Spiritual Laws" (1841)

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