Joseph Priestley

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

— Joseph Priestley

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

— Joseph Priestley

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

— Joseph Priestley

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his…

— Joseph Priestley

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before,…

— Joseph Priestley

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

— Joseph Priestley

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

— Joseph Priestley

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever…

— Joseph Priestley

“But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann. [G. W.…

— Joseph Priestley

Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John , and making of it a…

— Joseph Priestley

Had Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and…

— Joseph Priestley

It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has…

— Joseph Priestley

The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air; but I fancied that my breast…

— Joseph Priestley

It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to…

— Joseph Priestley

Let us not... contend about merit , but let us all be intent on forwarding the common enterprize , and equally enjoy…

— Joseph Priestley

As I conceive this doctrine to be a gross misrepresentation of the character and moral government of God, and to affect many…

— Joseph Priestley

It is known to all persons who are conversant in experimental philosophy, that there are many little attentions and precautions necessary to…

— Joseph Priestley

Lying is a crime the least liable to variation in its definitions. A child will upon the slightest temptation tell an untruth…

— Joseph Priestley

We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they…

— Joseph Priestley

[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at…

— Joseph Priestley

The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding…

— Joseph Priestley

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

— Joseph Priestley

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

— Joseph Priestley

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

— Joseph Priestley

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

— Joseph Priestley

This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.

— Joseph Priestley

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire...

— Joseph Priestley

When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the…

— Joseph Priestley

From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then…

— Joseph Priestley

To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just…

— Joseph Priestley

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as…

— Joseph Priestley

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank…

— Joseph Priestley

The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new…

— Joseph Priestley

Most of the early Christian writers thought the text "I and my Father are one," was to be understood of an unity…

— Joseph Priestley

How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world.…

— Joseph Priestley

It is sufficiently evident from many circumstances, that the doctrine of the divinity of Christ did not establish itself without much opposition,…

— Joseph Priestley