Unlearn Quotes
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To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn.
Aristotle -
Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.
Aristotle
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Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.
Idries Shah -
Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things.
William James -
How to get rid of having anything to unlearn.
Antisthenes -
It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for.
Amy Poehler -
...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.
Sarah Dessen -
Let us not unlearn what we have already learned.
Diogenes
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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 -
Before people can begin something new, they have to end what used to be and unlearn the old way.
William Bridges -
With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.
Alicia Ostriker -
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 -
Traditional ad agencies have so much to unlearn.
Edward Boches -
We spend most of our lives trying to unlearn much of what we've been taught.
Alexandra Stoddard
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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 -
Learn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned.
Ernst Haas -
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.
Seneca the Younger -
Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas