“Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. 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. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.”

Address at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (3 November 1966); published in Gerald R. Ford,Selected Speeches (1973) edited by Michael V. Doyle <!-- p. 114 -->
1960s
Context: Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: "Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion — or you shall learn nothing."

The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831)

Source: I, Lucifer

Source: The Story of My Life

"these men" refers to teachers and "the famous men of the ancients," p. 381
On Greek Literature

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I

Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 May, 1972
1970s

Source: Problems and theories of philosophy, 1949, p. 152, as cited in Łukasiewicz, 2016.

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 240.