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“Being asked what learning is the most necessary, he replied, "How to get rid of having anything to unlearn."”

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From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius

“Antisthenes … was asked on one occasion what learning was the most necessary, and he replied, "To unlearn one's bad habits."”

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From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius

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

“The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil. ”