All Quotes By Tag: Ridicule
“Having a fine relationship is good, but its absence doesn’t nullify your success in life. You shouldn’t be in it as a result of societal pressure, neither should you be ridiculed because you’re not in it. It’s an act of idiocy to place so much value on marital status when there are other better things to catch up with.”
“I don’t ridicule religion, it ridicules itself.”
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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.”
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“The devil’s happy when the critics run you off.”
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“Ridicule is the best test of truth.”
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“Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren’t so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do.”
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“I esteem myself happy to have as great an ally as you in my search for truth. I will read your work … all the more willingly because I have for many years been a partisan of the Copernican view because it reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypothesis. To refute the latter I have collected many proofs, but I do not publish them, because I am deterred by the fate of our teacher Copernicus who, although he had won immortal fame with a few, was ridiculed and condemned by countless people (for very great is the number of the stupid).{Letter to fellow revolutionary astronomer Johannes Kepelr}”
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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”[Preface to Brissot’s Address to His Constituents (1794)]”
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“It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort…only to find a big bear hug coming his way.”
“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.”(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”
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Voltaire