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I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

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.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

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

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

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

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.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.