Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed; in the second it is opposed; in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
                                                                                                                      --Arthur Schopenhauer

The problem there, Fantasyhead, is that this is not true in all cases. Sometimes a statement that someone asserts as the truth, in the final analysis, turns out to be ridiculous. History is full of such.

Don Firth