Unlearn 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

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

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

  Antisthenes

  Life, Wisdom, Truth

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

  Antisthenes

  Learning, Kind

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• Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.

  Larry Niven

  Half

  "The Ringworld Throne". Book by Larry Niven, 1996.

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn

  Aristotle

  Hard

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.123, Aristotle

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• 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

  Life, Negativity, Way

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• Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.

  Anthony de Mello

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.205, Image

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• For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

  Charles Bukowski

  Atheist, Educational, War

  "The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture". Life Magazine, December 1988.

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

  e. e. cummings

  Artist, Order, Knows

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• Many of us believe that we are victims to what happens to us, and therefore unworthy of anything better. What we've been taught and trained to believe about ourselves as children, often this is negative and we need to unlearn that. The way we unlearn them is by having a vision and moving forward. Staying focused and being true to that vision of what we desire for ourselves.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Children, Moving Forward, Believe

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

  Seneca the Elder

  Mind

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• By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: 'The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction — how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.'

  Alvin Toffler

  Powerful, Moving, Men

  "Future Shock". Book by Alvin Toffler, 1970.

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• The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, Learning, Justice

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• We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

  Charles Bukowski

  Life, Odds, Laughing

  "The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture". Life Magazine, December 1988.

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• We spend most of our lives trying to unlearn much of what we've been taught.

  Alexandra Stoddard

  Healing, Trying, Taught

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• 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

  Real, Thinking, Discipline

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• We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.

  Jack Gilbert

  Stars, Lovely, Constellations

  Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.15, Knopf

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• 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

  Life, Practice, Style

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• A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

  Alan Watts

  Education, Learning, Buddhism

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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.

  Tony Buzan

  Thinking, Effort, Needs

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• 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

  Order, Adults, Taught

  Kathleen Norris (1999). “Amazing Grace”, p.24, Penguin

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• 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

  Past, Skills, Needs

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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

  Alvin Toffler

  Powerful, Coaching, Dimensions

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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• 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

  Successful, Effort, Unnecessary

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