Unlearning Quotes

Learning, and especially unlearning, can take place only in the absence of defensiveness.... [W]e can drop our defenses only when we love and are loved. ~ William Sloane Coffin

If you must then hire for passion first, experience second and credentials third. Then train those hired for directed passion, dropping the excess baggage and the whole process of unlearning. An entrepreneur is much like an architect shapping human resources into a well crafted power house. ~ Nikhil Sharda

The spiritual path is more of an unlearning than a learning. ~ Donna Goddard

She asked me to tell her what it is to rule," Paul said. "And I said that one commands. And she said I had some unlearning to do." She hit a mark there right enough, Hawat thought. He nodded for Paul to continue. "She said a ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. She said he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men. ~ Frank Herbert

Wisdom is unlearning what you have learnt. ~ Amit Abraham

In this process of unlearning, in the process of feeling and hearing the plants again, one comes to realize many things. And of these things, perhaps stronger than the others, one feels the pain of the Earth. It is not possible to escape it.
One of the most powerful experiences I had of this was the year when I traveled to the Florida panhandle. One day Trishuwa and I decided to go out and make relationship with the plants and offer prayer to them. The place we chose appeared quite lush, with huge trees and thick undergrowth. But as we sat there, a strong anger came from the land and the trees. They had little use for us and told us so in strong language. We spoke with them for a long time and did not cower away from their rage and eventually, as we received their pain and anger, they calmed down a little. They told us that we could do our ceremonies if we wished and that they appreciated the thought but that it would do no good. It was too late for that place, it could not be helped, the land would take its revenge for the damage done to it and nothing would stop it. I wondered then how everyone who lived in the area could just go on with their daily lives when this communication from all the local living things was crying out so loudly. I wondered if anyone else felt this rage and anger. ~ Stephen Harrod Buhner

Most arguments are about programming; most resolutions are reached through a process of unlearning then relearning. ~ Oli Anderson

There is an age at which we teach what we know. Then comes another age at which we teach what we do not know; this is called research. Now perhaps comes the age of another experience: that of unlearning, of yielding to the unforeseeable change which forgetting imposes on the sedimentation of the knowledges, cultures, and beliefs we have traversed. ~ Roland Barthes

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

Growing up isn't about learning something new. It's about unlearning the fairy tales you believe as a child. ~ Skye Warren

The results you are churning out are a direct or indirect reflection of what you allowed into your life. Unlearning what you already know and practice is no easy task, but sometimes it's necessary for the programming or re-programming that must take place for success to be made deliberate. ~ Archibald Marwizi

When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around in mazes like everyone else. ~ Anne Lamott

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

Zen is a kind of unlearning. It teaches you how to drop that which you have learned, how to become unskillful again, how to become a child again, how to start existing without mind again, how to be here without any mind. ~ Rajneesh

Unlearning the colonialism I was taught, the stories I've been told and I've told myself, is a daily practice, like learning a new language. You learn it by watching films, listening to the radio, reading books. Your ear gets attuned to it. You pick up the vocabulary, learn the system's grammar and mechanics. From there, you can understand and deconstruct it. Sure, learning a language is a solo task, but it helps to have conversation partners. ~ Matt Ortile

Awareness is about unlearning. It is the recognition
that you don't know as much as you thought you knew. ~ Scott Adams

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning. ~ Orrin Woodward

I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true ~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and beyond dharma is nirvana. ~ Frederick Lenz

Now we have come full circle to the subtitle of this book: children learn by unlearning other languages. Viewed in the Darwinian light, all humanly possible grammars compete to match the language spoken in the child's environment. And fitness, because we have competition, can be measured by the compatibility of a grammar with what a child hears in a particular linguistic environment. This theory of language takes both nature and nurture into account: nature proposes, and nurture disposes. ~ Charles Yang

Most of your healing journey will be about unlearning the patterns of self-protection that once kept you safe. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

You learn who you are by unlearning who they taught you to be. ~ Nikki Rowe

9/11 was an INSIDE JOB...WAKE THE FUCK UP! ~ Patrick Michael Mooney

Life is not how we lead it. It is how children are born to lead it. ~ Raheel Farooq

Faith is unlearning the senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. ~ Mark Batterson

I don't categorize things merely to simplify my understanding. I'd rather delve into the process of unlearning. ~ Nikhil Sharda

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

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

There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

While it has become "cool" for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not feel that this pleasure should be linked to unlearning racism. ~ Bell Hooks

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

This process of surrender - this movement full speed astern - is what Christians call repentance. Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means killing part of yourself, undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here comes the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person - and he would not need it. Remember, ~ C.S. Lewis

There is no man to whom a good mind comes before an evil one. It is the evil mind that gets first hold on all of us. Learning virtue means unlearning vice. We should therefore proceed to the task of freeing ourselves from faults with all the more courage because, when once committed to us, the good is an everlasting possession; virtue is not unlearned. ~ Seneca.

When such patterns are triggered in therapy, it gives the patient a chance to look at them and change them, for as we saw in chapter 4, "Acquiring Tastes and Loves," positive bonds appear to facilitate neuroplastic change by triggering unlearning and dissolving existing neuronal networks, so the patient can alter his existing intentions. ~ Norman Doidge

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

Spirituality is about life long learning, unlearning and relearning ~ Sanchita Pandey

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve. ~ Mary McCarthy

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

Knowledge grows, and simultaneously it becomes obsolete as reality changes. Understanding involves both learning new knowledge and discarding obsolete and misleading knowledge. The discarding activity--unlearning--is as important a part of understanding as is adding new knowledge. ~ Bo Hedberg

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning. ~ Mark Batterson

You will free yourself from emotional drama by uncovering all the lies you believe in. It is a process of unlearning the lies. It is a period of cleansing, and it has nothing to do with the dream of society. ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz

The boy who became a man progressed from darkness and unlearning to light and responsibility. ~ Stephen King

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