As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
More Quotes from Joseph Priestley:
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.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
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
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 as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.
Joseph Priestley
It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
Joseph Priestley
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Children Quotes, Education Quotes, Sense & Perception QuotesI went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.
David Hyde Pierce
I remember Michael dribbling at the top of the key. Everybody knew to just get the hell out of his way.
Steve Kerr
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
Jeremy Bentham