What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
Source: In The Dictionary of Biographical Quotation, by Justin Wintle & Richard Kenin, 1978.
-- Joseph Priestley, (Mar 13 1733-1804), English chemist, political theorist, clergyman; He discovered oxygen and wrote studies of gases in Observations on Different Kinds of Air, 1786.