We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

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