Henry David Thoreau Quotes

It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.

Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

People are looking for certainty. The more complex the world becomes, the more people look for people to give them certainty and tell them what to do. During the past few years of actively thinking about this, there is one thing that I have accepted: certainty is not out there. There is not one strategy to follow, and that's OK.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

As I grow older, I have had to discard some ideas and policies because they no longer make sense. This strikes me as entirely healthy. I would invite others to do the same.

At the end of the day, none of us are the Oracle of Delphi, so we don't get everything right. It's always good to be able to listen and to take on what seems to be the right thing to do.

Luckily, I'm not educated. If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop.

You can't be limited by your own experience.

I've had to learn that not everything is so serious.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

Anyone who feels like a fool has made a good beginning.

But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.

A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.

Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth.