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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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Oscar Wilde
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Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
Author:
William Warburton
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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.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
Author:
Miguel Unamuno
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Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
Author:
Martin Tupper
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
Author:
Charles Simmons
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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.
Author:
Dwight Schultz
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.
Author:
Daniel Okrent
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I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.
Author:
Beverley Mitchell
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You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.
Author:
Michael McKean
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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.
Author:
Milan Kundera
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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.
Author:
Paul Klee
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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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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.
Author:
David Icke
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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.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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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.
Author:
John Hooker
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
Author:
Edward Gibbon
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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.
Author:
Frederick Douglass
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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.
Author:
Richard Davis
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I hope there are some who will brave ridicule for the sake of common justice to half the people in the world.
Author:
Barbara Bodichon
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When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?
Author:
Glenn Beck
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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.
Author:
Robert Ballard
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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.
Author:
Thomas Aquinas
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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.
Author:
Louisa Alcott
