Quotes About Unlearning

The magic lies within. To Heal yourself. To nurture yourself. To Empower and to dream. To learn and unlearn. To manifest your dreams. To thank for everything. The magic lies within.

I think that unlearning race for black people is more along the lines of seriously saying blackness isn't real, race isn't real.

Sexual healing involves a great deal of unlearning. Along the way, we learn a new way to think, feel, and behave sexually. We need to create goals that respect the time it might take us to integrate smaller changes.

Let us unlearn everything we know only by rote, go back to the beginning, learn all over again.

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

It is not difficult to learn a new idea, but it is almost impossible to unlearn an old one.

there's no question that a major moment of unlearning and relearning is at hand for educators of all stripes.

You don't learn that, she said. It's just there. It sounds like he spent his whole life trying to unlearn it. Trying to forget it.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.

I am bewildering you a little. Just enough to help you forget what you came to believe, so that you can remember what you've always known.

Breaking childhood teachings is never easy, and in essence, they are like white noise that can sometimes stop us from listening to ourselves, or having to listen to ourselves.

As Rebecca Bigler of the University of Texas points out, "Going to integrated schools gives you just as many chances to learn stereotypes as to unlearn them.

But at the time of their call they were exceedingly ignorant, narrow-minded, superstitious, full of Jewish prejudices, misconceptions, and animosities. They had much to unlearn of what was bad, as well as much to learn of what was good, and they were slow both to learn and to unlearn.

Yes, transformation is often more about unlearning than learning, which is why the religious traditions call it "conversion" or "repentance.

all mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning.

Enlightenment is not about knowing as much as it is about unknowing; it is not so much learning as unlearning. It is about surrendering and letting go rather than achieving and possessing. It's more about entering the mystery than arriving at a mental certitude.

unlearning, letting go, surrendering, serving others, and not the language of self-development—which often lurks behind our popular notions of "salvation.

For any creative person, along with learning, unlearning is also important.

My wife, Kristen, and I often talk about raising our kids in such a way that they have as little as possible to unlearn later on in life.

To be knowledgeable, learn new things every day; to be wise, unlearn things that you learn with wit and love.

Taking responsibility for change means overcoming the inertia and feeling of powerlessness on a personal level. People can grow and change if they are personally willing to confront and unlearn their racist conditioning (Kiselica, 1999; Sue, 2003; Winter, 1977).

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

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