The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
My mind is just a product of 50 years of being taught. I'm no smarter than anyone else, but I've been taught by some wonderful people.
Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.
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