Unlearning Quotes

“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

“I’m afraid of not unlearning the bad things my
parents taught me.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“We learn things from our parents, who learn things from their parents, who learned that from their parents. It doesn't make those things okay to believe...”
― Claribel A. Ortega, Frizzy

“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, The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance

“Education is a process of unlearning and learning.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Change. Unlearning yourself is more important than knowing yourself.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“I feel life today is too competitive to be enjoyable. Even if you don't want it to be, life is one intense competition, and how well you fare in it will determine your happiness and success. Most people just want to look like a winner more than they want to be a winner. I detest the competitiveness that permeates the society and how everything revolves around establishing yourself as a unique individual and honing skills that you can advertise in the market place. Contrary to popular belief, competition is not always beneficial. It adds a lot of unwanted frustration and stress. It can be destructive to one's self-esteem. Competition makes us imitate our competitors and we lose our identity in the midst of it. Why does it matter how successful someone else is in comparison to me? To be honest, I don't really care about being successful now. I just want the freedom to do anything I want without having to worry about social standards.”
― Sai Pradeep

“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

“I am still learning. To unlearn.
The story of happily ever after.
The narrative of Love hurts.
The belief of sex means love.
That their infidelity is my casualty.
I’m still learning. To unlearn.
What people gave me as love.”
― Emmanuella Raphaelle

“You taught me everything I wished to forget.”
― Laura Gentile, Daughterbody I: a self-exorcism through poetry

“Unlearning is essential part of evolving …. And evolving is essential part of finding yourself.”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“Unlearning makes learning at least three times longer than necessary.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sometimes you have to unlearn, go back to the beginning and relearn like a child.”
― Paul Bamikole

“Life is not how we lead it. It is how children are born to lead it.”
― Raheel Farooq

“Most arguments are about programming; most resolutions are reached through a process of unlearning then relearning.”
― Oli Anderson, Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication

“It took two continents, a regressive family, a forced marriage marred with abuse, a bitter divorce, an illegitimate pregnancy, family disownment, social ostracisation, going back to school - unlearning, learning and relearning, and a complete owning of her true self.”
― Tina Sequeira, Bhumi: A Collection of Short Stories

“Velizy. All those shepherds in the Pyrenees who are being fitted out with fibre optics, radio relay stations and cable TV. Obviously the stakes are pretty high! And not just in social terms. Did these people think they were already living in society, with their neighbours, their animals, their stories? What a scandalously underdeveloped condition they were in, what a monstrous deprivation of all the blessings of information, what barbaric solitude they were kept in, with no possibility of expressing themselves, or anything.
We used to leave them in peace. If they were called on, it was to get them to come and die in the towns, in the factories or in a war. Why have we suddenly developed a need for them, when they have no need of anything? What do we want them to serve as witnesses of? Because we'll force them to if we have to: the new terror has arrived, not the terror of 1984, but that of the twenty-first century. The new negritude has arrived, the new servitude. There is already a roll-call of the martyrs of information. The Bretons whose TV pictures are restored as soon as possible after the relay stations have been blown up . . . Velizy . . . in the Pyrenees. The new guinea pigs. The new hostages. Crucified on the altar of information, pilloried at their consoles. Buried alive under information. All this to make them admit the inexpressible service that is being done to them, to extort from them a confession of their sociality, of their 'normal' condition as associated anthropoids.

Socialism is destroying the position of the intellectual.

Unlearn what they say. Either they don't believe in it themselves or the violent effort they make to believe in it is disagreeable.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

“Sometimes learning means unlearning; replacing old concepts, views and opinions with new and challenging ones.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“In the matter of experiencing and learning, take your time. You are unlearning years of things that had nothing to do with you, and learning new things that have everything to do with who you are trying to be.”
― Damariis, Self-care is the Best Care: Check in With Yourself

“When a philosopher happens to read some of his older texts, and most of the time he shakes his head in disapproval, he can be sure that he is on the right path. For this is an infallible sign that his thought has evolved and that he possesses the capacity to learn, to unlearn, to adapt. He is brave enough to acknowledge that he may have been naive, and this, at the same time, is a useful reminder that he might be wrong even with his current views. Thus, he protects himself against arrogance and intransigence.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

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

“these words are pieces of my life strung together to tell my story. i am flawed. i am problematic. i am learning to unlearn. i’m in need of healing but i tell my story anyway.”
― Malebo Sephodi, Miss Behave

“As technology progresses, the amount of unlearning increases proportionally to the amount of learning.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“I learned both love and joy in a hard school/ and treasure them like the fierce salvage of/ some wreck that has been built to look like stone/ and stand, though it did not, a thousand years,”
― Edwin Morgan, Centenary Selected Poems

“I learned both love and joy in a hard school/ and treasure them like the fierce salvage of/ some wreck that has been built to look like stone/ and stand, though it did not, a thousand years.”
― Edwin Morgan, Centenary Selected Poems

“The key to attracting more physical abundance, in your reality, is to eradicate the current subconscious projections that you place on money and its identity.”
― Robin S. Baker, Esotericism With an Unconventional Soul: Exploring Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, and Mysticism

“The band-aid lasts so long before you’ll need another one”
― Melissa, LSS, PMP, PR

“It is possible in a country like India and especially in
families where conservative, parochial, sectarian, or caste influences reign supreme, to grow into maturity and even obtain high University degrees without being really emancipated.”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim