Unlearn Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

We are like a wishing well
And a bolt of electricity — Fiona Apple

One of my young married students has suffered all her life because she was taught in her Church that she was born so sinful that the only way the wrath of God the Father could be appeased enough for him to forgive all her horrible sinfulness was for God the Son to die in agony on the cross. Without his suffering, the Father would remain angry forever with all his Creation.
Many of us have had a least part of that horror thrust on us at one time or other inour childhood. For many reasons I never went to Sunday School, so I was spared having a lot of peculiar teaching to unlearn. It's only lately that I've discovered that it was no less a person than St. Anselm who saw the atonement in terms of appeasement of an angry God, from which follows immediately the heresy that Jesus came to save us from God the Father. — Madeleine L'Engle

To be knowledgeable, learn new things every day; to be wise, unlearn things that you learn with wit and love. — Debasish Mridha

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid. — Andrew Pyper

It is not difficult to learn a new idea, but it is almost impossible to unlearn an old one. — Debasish Mridha

We could say that practically all the problems of the human race are due to the fact that thought is not proprioceptive. — David Bohm

I am friends with Kathleen Hanna and Adam Horovitz, aka Ad-Rock from the Beastie Boys. I can't believe I am friends with them. I love Kathleen's music and I am in awe of her social activism and general awesomeness. I asked her to interview me for Interview magazine when I was just a sketch performer whom nobody knew. She said yes because she supports young women. This is the artist who pulled women to the front at her rock shows. She shows up and does the work and is the real deal. Now she is my friend. — Amy Poehler

He missed Stephanie, the ease between them, her solid and comforting presence. Sitting across from him, in the light of the fire, she blazed with health and well-being and good humor. "I — Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it. — Susanna Clarke

Only he who can say, "The Lord is the strength of my life" can say, "Of whom shall I be afraid?" — Alexander MacLaren

Only for today, I will devote ten minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul — Pope John XXII

At the end of the day, the Lord knows I have no malice in my heart. But I've got tattoos, and I still fornicate. — Pharrell Williams

I remember thinking when the girls were born, first one and then the other, that I should have had sons and not daughters. I didn't feel up to daughters, I didn't know how they worked. I must have been afraid of hating them. With sons I would have known what to do. — Margaret Atwood

Seize opportunity by the forelock and see where it leads you. — Armand Hammer