Home » Quote » H.L. Mencken » „The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.“ „The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.“ — H.L. Mencken Tags:Truth Related quotes „The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived. Huxley laughed the devils out of the Gadarene swine. Not the laws of the United States but the mother-in-law joke brought the Mormons to surrender. Not the horror of it but the absurdity of it killed the doctrine of infant damnation. But the razor edge of ridicule is turned by the tough hide of truth. How loudly the barber-surgeons laughed at Huxley—and how vainly! What clown ever brought down the house like Galileo? Or Columbus? Or Darwin?... They are laughing at Nietzsche yet...“ — H.L. Mencken „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.“ — Thomas Aquinas „But the razor edge of ridicule is turned by the tough hide of truth.“ — H.L. Mencken „Truth is what stands the test of experience.“ — Albert Einstein „Comfort” is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being “comfortable.“ — Swami Vivekananda
„The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.“ — H.L. Mencken Tags:Truth