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

—  Antisthenes

§ 7
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius

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ἐρωτηθεὶς τί τῶν μαθημάτων ἀναγκαιότατον, “τὸ περιαιρεῖν,” ἔφη, “τὸ ἀπομανθάνειν.”

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