“5085. 'Tis harder to unlearn than learn.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“They who truly know have had to unlearn hardly less than they have had to learn.”
Variant: They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 90
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Context: All the lessons learned, unlearned;
The young, who learned to read, now blind
Their eyes with an archaic film;
The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune
Following the donkey`s bray;
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On the high door of a skull and in some corner
Of an irrefrangible eye
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