Thomas Henry Huxley: Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every…
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
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- Humility is giving up your right to be right for something better.
- All greatness looks like ego to wannabes. Never judge others through the lens of your own unrealized potential.
- Humility is not silence; it is not insecurity (not speaking up or out because you are concerned about how you might look or how people may feel about you). Humility is giving up your right to be right, for what is best overall.
- You don't understand authority until you are corrected and allow it to direct your life, with a positive attitude.
- It is no man's business whether he has genius or not: work he must, whatever he is, but quietly and steadily; and the natural and unforced results of such work will always be the things that God meant him to do, and will be his best.
- Wise men don’t need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren’t wise.