(370 quotes found)
“To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize”
Blaise Pascal
“Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption”
John Stuart Mill
“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.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
“Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!”
W. Edwards Deming
“The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.”
William S. Burroughs
“I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem”
Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.
“The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's just ridiculous. It's as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it's for a reason. Among primitive people they say if someone was bitten by a snake he was murdered. I believe that.”
“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them”
Baruch Spinoza
“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.”
Carrie P. Snow
“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
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