To Be Ridiculed Quotes

#1. To be ridiculed for your genius is better than to be praised for your mediocrity.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.

Edmund White

#3. Authority is to be ridiculed, outwitted and avoided.

Tom Robbins

#4. There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#5. It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.

Wangari Maathai

#6. And it is not enough in the world for a wise brain to be ridiculed, it must also be wounded & mistreated; a head that is a treasury of wisdom should not expect any crown other than one of thorns. What garland can human wisdom expect when it sees what divine wisdom received?

Juana Ines De La Cruz

#7. It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.

Alexander Pope

#8. I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.

Kevin Costner

#9. If you were doing something in secret and didn't want the attention, what better way to have it ridiculed and dismissed than bring in a few Californian elements?

Thomas Pynchon

#10. Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

George Sand

#11. You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.

Gustave Flaubert

#12. Today we have badminton set up, as well as a hike around the grounds, and trivia questions in the evening. Any questions?"
"When did we sign up for the senior citizen cruise?" Christian ridiculed.

Rachel Van Dyken

#13. Never confuse your right to say what you believe with a right to never be disagreed with and ridiculed for saying what you believe.

Ricky Gervais

#14. I was being ridiculed for going to school ... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene ... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques.

Donald Byrd

#15. The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos.

Victor Davis Hanson

#16. All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#17. Most people with new ideas are ridiculed ... until they succeed!

Stephen Richards

#18. I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.

Nancy Reagan

#19. Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.

Barbara Kingsolver

#20. What's the most significant barrier to creativity and innovation? Kevin thought about it for a minute and said, I don't know if it has a name, but honestly, it's the fear of introducing an idea and being ridiculed, laughed at, and belittled.

Brene Brown

#21. I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

Jason Blum

#22. This age is interested in success, not suffering ... Our Lord was ridiculed, insulted, persecuted, and eventually killed. In the face of opposition, He went about doing good.

Billy Graham

#23. Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#24. How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.

Horace Walpole

#25. Stubbornness is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged or ridiculed.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#26. Goldstein and his heresies will live for ever. Every day, at every moment, they will be defeated, discredited, ridiculed, spat upon - and yet they will always survive.

George Orwell

#27. Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.

Samuel Johnson

#28. Sometimes we're caught off guard and asked to do something we may not want to do, something outside our comfort zone - a favor, a challenge. We could be mocked or ridiculed. Or maybe we'll doubt ourselves, but we can't let fear rule. Sometimes in life, we have to dance.

Jake Byrne

#29. There was, of course, nowhere better in the world to be than New York City. This fact was the foundation of her family's satisfaction with itself, the platform from which all else could be ridiculed, the collateral of adult sophistication that bought them the right to behave like children.

Jonathan Franzen

#30. I've been ridiculed by silk-suited lawyers, jailed by ornery judges, and occasionally paid for services rendered. I never intended to be a hero, and I succeeded.

Paul Levine

#31. Everynbody tries not to reveal his weaknesses, so that he may not be ridiculed. Specially before the enemy. One's weakpoits shold not be revealed. Becaues ohe canstrike on those to ruin us. So one shold remain strong before the enemy.

Chanakya

#32. Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

#33. I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.

Julia Roberts

#34. In 1981, when I went down to visit Georgia Tech, I watched Michael Jordan play and literally get ridiculed for taking a jump shot in the championship game that went off the backboard, and they won. People are forgetting that Michael was just one of the players when they went to the Dream Team.

John Salley

#35. Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.

Immanuel Kant

#36. Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, THEN, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.

Linus Torvalds

#37. So guys who are otherwise sensitive and thoughtful say and do ridiculously dumb things to impress other guys. It's an enormous performance, but guys know that if they fail, they'll be ridiculed as sissies mercilessly.

Michael Kimmel

#38. I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

Kevin Costner

#39. When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the producers executed him. It reminds some people of Broadway today.

Samuel G. Freedman

#40. While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Andrea Dworkin

#41. People of faith find themselves marginalized and ridiculed. In a nation where our coins carry the motto, 'In God We Trust ... '

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#42. I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.

Zainab Salbi

#43. In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#44. Now it was done. He was free of Xanth forever. Free to make his own life, without being ridiculed or mothered or tempted. Free to be himself.
Bink put his face in his hands and cried.

Piers Anthony

#45. We've got to turn this backward thinking around where ignorance is championed over intelligence. Young black kids being ridiculed by their peers for getting A's and speaking proper English: that's criminal.

Spike Lee

#46. Freedom of speech is not only the right to say as you please, it is also the right to have what you say contested, and where it does not accord with reason - refuted, or with sense - ridiculed.

David Joseph Cribbin

#47. In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.

Frederick Lenz

#48. All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts are stubborn, and refusal to accept them does not avoid their inexorable effects-the tragic consequences are now upon us

Helen Keller

#49. President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.

William Bennett

#50. Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication media, it's no longer the same, it's nourished by other myths, it sells extremely well, it has ridiculed good sense and it's spreading its terrifying power.

Ennio Flaiano

#51. Every civilizing step in history has been ridiculed as 'sentimental', 'impractical', or 'womanish', etc., by those whose fun, profit or convenience was at stake

Joan Gilbert

#52. For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally of coarse nerves, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual;

Thomas De Quincey

#53. Extravagant love, as in every generation before us, has been ridiculed and scorned. it is seen as wasteful and reckless overspending. But extravagant love, the offering of everything, the emptying of the pockets of our life, is the essence of true Christianity.

Eric Ludy

#54. America and Western Europe are on a moneymaking, pleasure-mad spree unparalleled in the history of the world. God is generally ignored or ridiculed. Church members in many cases are only halfhearted Christians. Judgment is coming.

Billy Graham

#55. Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#56. Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most.

Dillon Burroughs

#57. As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed: not only by capitalism's traditional critics but also by many of its staunchest defenders.

Tony Judt

#58. The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

Louisa May Alcott

#59. Not too many years ago, both parties acknowledged that our entitlement commitments were a sword hanging over our heads. But when President George W. Bush tried to begin discussions on Social Security reform, Democrats ridiculed and demonized him and told seniors he was after their nest eggs.

David Limbaugh

#60. Living your life working for peace and a better humanity is an awesome task. Even if you are mocked, laughed at and ridiculed for it ... there is no better way.

Timothy Pina

#61. Jesus says we are blessed when we are hated, ostracized, insulted, and ridiculed on earth, because of Him.

Billy Witt

#62. Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.

Laura Hillenbrand

#63. We no longer live in a post-Christian society, we live in an anti-Christian society, one in which the Christian faith is dismissed or ridiculed and Christians are considered suspect and their motives and behavior berated.

Josh McDowell

#64. Unless your ideas are ridiculed by experts, they are worth nothing.

Reg Revans

#65. I think there's a lot of people who are afraid to experiment with clothing because they're afraid to get judged or ridiculed.

Ian Astbury

#66. Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.

Tony Campolo

#67. People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do.

Davey Havok

#68. The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.

Niklaus Wirth

#69. When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it.

Heath L'Estrange

#70. Frank Gresham, when twitted with being a Whig, foreswore the de Courcy family; and then, when ridiculed as having been thrown over by the Tories, foreswore his father's old friends. So

Anthony Trollope

#71. I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed.

Susannah McCorkle

#72. Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know?

Kevin Costner

#73. Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And he was reviled and ridiculed for the stalemate that resulted. Now, he's seen as one of the great presidents of the 20th century.

Charles Krauthammer

#74. I don't think it's an ethical or moral issue, or even that people are stupid, but I do feel like as a culture things are out of balance, perverted, and inverted. Things that are ridiculous are worshipped, and things that are important are ridiculed. I think that's something worth thinking about.

Ian MacKaye

#75. My group ridiculed and made fun of anyone who was not like us, and that comprised almost everyone! People with negative identity drop out and stand on the sidelines of life, making fun of everyone else. In actuality I was terrified of life.

John Bradshaw

#76. I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.

Julia Glass

#77. For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.

Rowan Atkinson

#78. Who could imagine that one could be so ridiculed, so humiliated by oneself?

Kobo Abe