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1 " Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning. "
― Chris Brady , LIFE
2 " You learn who you are by unlearning who they taught you to be. "
― Nikki Rowe
3 " So many days in their shared life. So many experiences. How had they managed to spend the previous sixteen years unlearning each other? How had all the presence summed to disappearance? "
― Jonathan Safran Foer , Here I Am
4 " I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live. "
― Albert Camus , The Fall
5 " 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 , Making Success Deliberate
6 " The greatest and toughest part of learning is unlearning to learn. "
7 " Education is a process of unlearning and learning. "
― Debasish Mridha
8 " For the first 30years of life, you keep learning. The rest of your life you keep unlearning what you had learnt "
9 " 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. "
― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables
10 " You see, unlearning is a very important process towards becoming enlightened, because in this life you will have learned wrong ways and those wrong ways that you have learned are barriers blocking you from becoming who you really are, therefore it is vital that they are unlearned. "
― Andrew James Pritchard , Smoke and Mirrors
11 " Most of your healing journey will be about unlearning the patterns of self-protection that once kept you safe. "
― Vironika Tugaleva
12 " 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. "
― , The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World
13 " As one man said, " I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it." That's what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you. "
14 " 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 , In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars
15 " 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 , Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
16 " Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on cathartic individual psychological personal prejudice without stressing the need for corresponding change in political commitment and action. A woman who attends an unlearning racism workshop and learns to acknowledge that she is racist is no less a threat than one who does not. Acknowledgment of racism is significant when it leads to transformation. "
― , Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
17 " Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning. "
