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“When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Antisthenes. iv.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bb4551eb612ed4afe99ff5d55a049120d68a82ca03427f5ebcf22fc1eb0600a7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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