Reason Quote by William Warburton Download Open image “Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.” — William Warburton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Reason Ridicule Tests Truth
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
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… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in… — John Keats Copy Share Image
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Mock and ridicule men who refuse to use reason and logic; use reason and logic against men who know only how to mock and… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders,… — William Penn Copy Share Image
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires. — William James Copy Share Image
Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise,… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or so immediately… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my… — Jane Powell Copy Share Image
Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them. — Jennifer Jason Leigh Copy Share Image
There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless. — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If you can do anything for love there's no reason you can't do everything to someone you love. — Jayjay Guillermo Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can sound a… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
![“I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my career], because so many things are on the road. I just don't want to be away from my husband, my dogs and my home. I don't sing that much any more because that also takes you on the road.” quote by Jane Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/07c/jane-powell-36243_away-from-home_i-don-t-like-being-away-from-home-that-s_278.jpg)
