#ridicule

The devil's happy when the critics run you off. ↗

— Criss Jami

#certainty #confidence #criticism #critics #determination

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors. ↗

— Beverley Mitchell

#being #being a teenager #criticism #dealing #gossip

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#automatically #become #cynical #how #indication

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

— Baruch Spinoza

#bewail #ceaseless #effort #human #human actions

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#being #first #opposed #passes #ridiculed

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded. ↗

— Paul Klee

#distance #does #flesh #garden #hat

I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#know #pundits #reporters #ridicule #who

My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither. ↗

— Justina Chen

#ridicule #beauty

You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#contempt #mockery #perfection #ridicule #beauty

So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and then another one next to it. "So why wouldn't you want to join the ranks of the ridiculed? ↗

— Justina Chen

#artists #laughable #memorable-works #pushing-the-limits #ridicule