Joseph Priestley Quotes
Best Quotes by Joseph Priestley
“It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.”
“The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.”
“The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.”
“To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.”
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“So many think incorrectly that everything was created by the Creator in the beginning as it is seen. That not only the mountains, valleys, and waters, but also various types of minerals occurred together with the rest of the world.
And therefore it is said that it is unnecessary to investigate the reasons why they differ in their internal properties and their locations. Such considerations are very dangerous for the growth of all the sciences, and hence for natural knowledge of the Earth, particularly the art of mining
Though it is very easy for those clever people to be philosophers, having learnt by heart the three words 'God so created' and to give them in reply in place of all reasons.”
