Quotes by Joseph Priestley

“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning...”

“The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.”

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

“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.”

“When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.”

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

“When all other means of communication fail, try words”

“Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.”

“The two words Ôinformation and Ôcommunication are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.”

“In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.”

“The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.”

“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”

“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.”

“Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.”

“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.”

“The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.”