The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.
I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.
When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.
ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not understand that, it is very easy to be broken and to be subdued.
I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly and systematically, it will be defeated. Shame is a great motivator as well as deterrent. Do not underestimate the power of ridicule. This is serious stuff not a laughing matter.
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humor, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule.
Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
What people don't understand, they laugh at.
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.
He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.
Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
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