107 Unlearn Quotes

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Famous Unlearn Quotes

To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn — Aristotle

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

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. — Antisthenes

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. — Gloria Steinem

Resist. Unlearn. Defy. — Jeff Hardy

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

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early. — Seneca The Elder

We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars. — Jack Gilbert

To take in a new idea you must destroy the old, let go of old opinions, to observe and conceive new thoughts. To learn is but to change your opinion. — B. J. Palmer

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. — Antisthenes

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

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

You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution. — Karel Appel

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits. — Alan Cohen

The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself. — E. E. cummings

Short Unlearn Quotes

  • Old age, to the unlearned, is winter; to the learned, it’s harvest time. — Yiddish Proverbs
  • The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty. — Milan Kundera
  • He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation. — John Adams
  • The unbeaten brat will remain unlearned. — R.K. Narayan
  • We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. — Charles Bukowski
  • The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love. — Marianne Williamson
  • Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be. — Idries Shah
  • Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt. — Sathya Sai Baba
  • The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil. — Antisthenes
  • When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before. — Henry David Thoreau

Learn To Unlearn Quotes

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

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

It takes six years to make a golfer: three to learn the game, then another three to unlearn all you have learned in the first three years. You might be a golfer when you arrive at that stage, but more likely you are just starting. — Walter Hagen

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

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

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

The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times. — Molly Ivins

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

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

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. — Alvin Toffler

Unlearn Things Quotes

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

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

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be . . . Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. — Tony Buzan

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

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

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

I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know. — Darcey Steinke

The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb. — Cathy Davidson

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

Unlearn Thinking Quotes

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

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. — Tony Buzan

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

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

It's a cliché to state that one should think like a child, but it's clear that kids know something that the world tries to make you unlearn later in life. — John Darnielle

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

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

Relearn Quotes

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. — Alvin Toffler

We must relearn how to cry. A strong man cries; it is the weak man who holds back his tears. — Archie Fire Lame Deer

First, do no harm. Prioritize stability and relearn how to move to prevent injury. — Peter Attia

We had to learn that we're beautiful. We had to relearn something forcefully taken from us. We had to learn about Black power. People have power if we unite. We learned the importance of coming together and being active — Assata Shakur

In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion - ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in. — William Kittredge

Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old. — Robert Breault

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." Ray Kroc "If some of today's leaders don't relearn the value of a smile, they'll be unable to fire up others' ability to find real enjoyment in their work. — Ken Blanchard

In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things. — Linda M. Godwin

After my pregnancy, I discovered I have an allergy to yeast. Problem is, all the food I love has yeast in it. So I have to relearn how to cook. — Tia Mowry

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It's a lesson I've had to relearn quite a few times. — Robert Kiyosaki

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More Unlearn Quotes

You are not born racist. You are born into a racist society. And like anything else, if you can learn it, you can unlearn it. But some people choose not to unlearn it, because they're afraid they'll lose power if they share with other people. We are afraid of sharing power. That's what it's all about. — Jane Elliott

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

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain. — Anne Grant

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. — Marianne Williamson

Over the long run, however, the real reason you fail to stick with habits is that your self-image gets in the way. This is why you can’t get too attached to one version of your identity. Progress requires unlearning. Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity. — James Clear

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us. — Marianne Williamson

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

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. — Benjamin Franklin

Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring the human brain. We are literally upgrading our minds by downloading the mind of Christ. — Mark Batterson

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

Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity. — Alexander Crummell

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

My job is to explain stuff you don't know or already know and have to unlearn. My job is to teach you stuff you don't know that you need to know, stuff you should know. I'm going to take what you already know and re-describe it. — Michael Eric Dyson

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

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. — Mark Twain

Yet when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood. In it you could not read the ethnic particulars of the soldier who died next to you. He was an American. And when I think of how we learned this lesson, I wonder how we could have unlearned it. — Bob Dole

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