A Quote by Anthony de Mello

Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.

Anthony de Mello

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Everything Learn Nothing Those Unlearn Wisdom

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Anthony de Mello
Indian - Priest
September 4, 1931 - June 2, 1987

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

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

Charles de Lint

The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.

Gloria Steinem

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

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

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

Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.

Larry Niven

Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.

Samantha Morton

Those who think they know everything will learn nothing.

Roger McDonald

You are not born racist. You are born into a racist society. And like anything else, if you can learn it, you can unlearn it. But some people choose not to unlearn it, because they're afraid they'll lose power if they share with other people. We are afraid of sharing power. That's what it's all about.

Jane Elliott

You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.

Robert Kiyosaki

A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.