A Quote by Diogenes Laertius

When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, ?Not to unlearn what you have learned!?

Diogenes Laertius

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Diogenes Laertius
Greek - Philosopher

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

Antisthenes

Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

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

Antisthenes

When negotiations are at an impasse, when States dig their heels in, it is time to 'undig' them in a spirit of compromise. We all need to unlearn the predator in us, unlearn discrimination, unlearn privilege.

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.

Diogenes Laertius

Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.

Larry Niven

Let us not unlearn what we have already learned

Diogenes

The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.

Seneca the Younger

James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to said, replied, asked, and answered and only when absolutely necessary.

Anne McCaffrey

I asked my mother I said, "You divorced my dad, how did you decide? She said, "I decided twelve years before he knew it." I was like wow; I'm learning something new every day.

Denzel Washington

For me, every film is a learning process. After each, I take time to unlearn.

Vetrimaaran

There's very little to be said for learning a piece note by note, reading the rhythmic markings, practising the fingerings and following your instructor's suggestions, if you haven't any idea how the music will eventually sound and feel. If you learn a piece mechanically, you may have to 'unlearn' it before you can play it with expression and feeling.

Barry Green

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

Alexander Pope

The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.

Antisthenes

The post area I had to unlearn. And yeah, now it's a relearning process. It's different. It's learning what works and what doesn't work.

Chris Bosh

There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so necessary is this to the understanding the characters of men, that none are more ignorant of them than those learned pedants whose lives have been entirely consumed in colleges and among books; for however exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

Henry Fielding

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