To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn

He who learns death unlearns slavery.

Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.

I felt the need to unlearn my formal education.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

Once you know what's in your food you can't unlearn it.

The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.

They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.

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

Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.

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

One should accept failure, and be willing to learn, unlearn and relearn again.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Learn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned.

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

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

I learnt that an actor should be willing to take risks, try new things and unlearn stuff.

Being in Europe had helped me unlearn some of what I'd been taught or unconsciously believed.

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

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.

My idea of chilling is to detox, and after you complete a project, there's so much to unlearn and start afresh.

People think that theatre helps, but in my case, it slowed me down. I had to unlearn everything when I went on to a film set.

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.

I had to unlearn cricket to learn hockey. It is easier for someone who is not a sportsperson to pick up hockey. They just have to learn it.

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.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

I had to unlearn everything, as Maya's character is the essence of 'Allama.' She reflects feminism, an in-depth and powerful role where she feels that she can never lose.

A new medium always has a period when it is struggling inside the confining box of an earlier medium. Creators have to unlearn what they knew before they can see the fresh, uncharted vistas stretching before them.

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.

Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can't go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I'm lucky my face can look so hideous.

For 'Dum Maro Dum,' I had a diction tutor, as I had to get rid of my Hyderabadi Hindi and learn Goan Hindi. It wasn't easy, because these two kinds of Hindi were mutually incompatible. I had to unlearn one kind of Hindi and then learn a new kind.

Girls are socialised in ways that are harmful to their sense of self - to reduce themselves, to cater to the egos of men, to think of their bodies as repositories of shame. As adult women, many struggle to overcome, to unlearn, much of that social conditioning.

So I don't think one type of wrestling is right and one type of wrestling is wrong, and I've used that ability to unlearn what I've done and really go back and get back in touch with that Dragon Gate style since now there's a lot of guys that can work with that.

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.

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.

When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.

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