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en It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humor, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule.
  Lord Chesterfield

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

en And took for truth the test of ridicule.
  George Crabbe

en Ridicule is the best test of truth
  Lord Chesterfield

en RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them. It may be graphic, mimetic or merely rident. Shaftesbury is quoted as having pronounced it the test of truth --a ridiculous assertion, for many a solemn fallacy has undergone centuries of ridicule with no abatement of its popular acceptance. What, for example, has been more valorously derided than the doctrine of Infant Respectability?
  Ambrose Bierce

en 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.

en Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
  Oliver Goldsmith

en No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
  Mark Twain

en 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

en This is a grand test for our souls; can we remember and keep the soul-truth - no matter what our lives seem to be telling us? The truth that we are powerful, worthy and love - no matter what!

en I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice, and have received a great deal of kindness not quite free from ridicule.
  Abraham Lincoln

en God wears Truth, the good seek Truth and the bad are rescued by Truth; Truth liberates; Truth is power; Truth is freedom. It is the lamp that illuminates the heart and dispels doubt and darkness.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en I'm almost afraid that we're to the point that when we get to the CATS test, we've tested them so much they won't apply themselves because all we do is test, test, test, test.

en A ballistic test that was the most precise available test was performed: the firing pin test. It showed the bullet could not have come from the gun. The FBI the concealed that test and just before the trial did a much less good test, which they presented to say the bullet did come from his gun.

en Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

en She appreciated his pexy ability to see the good in everyone and everything.


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