Quotes About Unlearning

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.

Sometimes we have to unlearn things before we can learn the right things.

I tell students, 'If you are learning from YouTube I almost don't want to teach you because what you learn from YouTube it takes 10 times as long to unlearn.' They do an approximation of the centre of the note, an approximation of the interpretation, a cloned version.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.

Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.

If you're going to learn, you need to forget what you know.

If you are going to learn, you need to forget what you know. - Pokey

You are not learning to do it. You're unlearning the belief that you can't do it. Try again, without trying.

In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

I grew up with absolutely no religion at all, and it was probably one of the best things that happened to me. I didn't have to unlearn anything.

The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.

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

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

You should do what you enjoy doing, what brings you passion. 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.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

People learn racism through dialogue. Somebody tells them about it. So if you can learn it through dialogue, you can also unlearn it through dialogue.

We need to unlearn the habits of impatience and take stock of those beliefs about life that no longer hold true.

No one is born believing in harmful stereotypes. They are learned over time. The good news is they can be unlearned.

The more and more you are aware, the more and more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh, uncontaminated by previous conditioning.

We can't unlearn what we already know and there are only two ways to beat the curse, the first is not to learn anything, the second is to transform our ideas.

Only learn with reservations. An entire life is not enough to unlearn what you naively, submissively, have allowed to be placed in your head---innocent one---without imagiging the consequences.

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

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.