Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.
The Bible has, amazingly- no doubt with supernatural grace-survived its critics. The harder tyrants try to eliminate it and skeptics dismiss it, the better read it becomes.
My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.
If you don't think, and you have no wit and you have so many hangups that you can't look beyond your cup of coffee then you're never going to understand what I'm really saying. Because you know what? You're going to shut down and close off before you hear me. If I'm threatening you, you're going to see it the way you need to see it so you can dismiss me.
Re-examine all that you have been told. . . dismiss that which insults your soul.
Before you dismiss a beginner's work, remember how much you sucked when you started. You probably sucked worse, actually.
People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
Now when Megyn Kelly says something about Donald Trump they [supporters] just dismiss it, because it`s not - it`s all considered the source. It`s not evaluating the information on its own. It`s just consider the source.
By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false or absurd, to dismiss the man so that his message could also be dismissed.
