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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us. - Thomas Jefferson

 

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. - William Blake

 

Fashion: A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. - Ambrose Bierce

 

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice, and have received a great deal of kindness not quite free from ridicule. - Abraham Lincoln

 

To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. - Blaise Pascal

 

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophise. - Blaise Pascal

 

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect. - Horace [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. - Louisa May Alcott

 

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.-Honore De Balzac

 

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.-Horace Walpole

 

I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.-David Icke

 

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.-Baruch Spinoza

 

I hope there are some who will brave ridicule for the sake of common justice to half the people in the world.-Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon

 

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.-Daniel Okrent

 

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.-Frederick Douglass

 

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.-Beverley Mitchell

 

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.-Robert Ballard

 

In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.-Arthur Bremer

 

It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.-Dwight Schultz

 

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.-Louisa May Alcott

 

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.-Milan Kundera

 

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.-Edward Gibbon

 

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.-Paul Klee

 

Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee.-John Jay Hooker

 

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.-William Warburton

 

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.-Thomas Jefferson

 

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.-Martin Farquhar Tupper

 

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.-Charles Simmons

 

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.-Oscar Wilde

 

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.-Victor Hugo

 

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.-Miguel de Unamuno

 

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.-William Blake

 

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.-Thomas Aquinas

 

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.-William Hazlitt

 

When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?-Glenn Beck

 

You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.-Michael McKean

 

You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time.-Richard H. Davis