In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

Joseph Priestley

Joseph Priestley

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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

— Joseph Priestley

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

— Joseph Priestley

Disillusionment

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

— Joseph Priestley

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

— Joseph Priestley

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

— Joseph Priestley