Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

It's not easy to change the way you play when you are 30.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.' Osho

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true, and admit that truth to him, but reveal to him the side on which it is false. He is satisfied with that, for he sees that he was not mistaken, and that he only failed to see all sides. Now, no one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.

It is difficult to unlearn a gospel.

In a sense, much that is learned is bound to be bad habits. You're always beginning again.

The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.

It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Most people (by the time they have become adults ) can't change their minds because their neural pathways have become set... the longer neural pathways have been running one way the harder it is to rewire them.

The idea that when you correct a fact, you erase that fact from people's memories is the reverse of the truth. When you correct a fact, what you do is you further lodge that fact into people's minds, and they remember the error.

Thought makes everything fit for use.

We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.

The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.