A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.


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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
GREEK PROVERB
A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
UNKNOWN
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
MENCIUS (MENGZI MENG-TSE)
Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.
MENCIUS
Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous
MENCIUS
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE ROBERT GISSING
There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB
Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.
MICHAEL ONDAATJE
Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.
ARAB PROVERB
When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him
AFRICAN PROVERB
"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of l...
J.M. COETZEE
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
GIORDANO BRUNO
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.
MASON COOLEY
The same dress is indecent ten years before its time; daring one year before its time; chic (contemp...
JAMES LAVER
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
FRANCIS BACON
The only power that can exalt a nation is the truth of God, and the only time truth exalt is when it...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
The same costume will be Indecent 10 years before its time, Shameless 5 years before its time, Outr?...
JAMES LAVER
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
R. SCOTT RICHARDS
A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.
DEAN KOONTZ
A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
JAMES CALLAGHAN
When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and ...
JAMES NACHTWEY
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
ANONYMOUS
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Truth is like a flower, if you tend to it and leave it in the sunshine, it will blossom into somethi...
ANGIE KARAN
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
HENRI-FREDERIC
To tell part of the truth is more dangerous than lying.
MINETTE MARIN
There are three things that ought to be considered before some things are spoken: the manner, the pl...
ROBERT SOUTHEY
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to lea...
IRENAEUS OF LYONS
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a trut...
ANURAG SHOURIE
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.
ROBERT KIYOSAKI
No character before its time. The scripts will dictate which is first.
AVI ARAD
What's dangerous about this is we don't know its potential. For the present, everything hinges on wh...
DAVID HEYMANN
Death is a dark flower, its perfume heady and dangerous as it pulls you into its bosom.
CAROL WEEKES
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
SCOTTISH PROVERB
The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which i...
GEORGE SELDES
For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Its only a matter of time now before complete human integration!
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER
In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
CHARLES LINDBERGH
And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.
VICTOR HUGO
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
ALFRED ADLER
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY
The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority
HENRIK IBSEN
CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before d...
JIM WALTON
A fight is like the perfect storm. It is risky and dangerous. But, as the African proverb goes, Smoo...
LAUREN KLARFELD
There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because i...
NEILS BOHR
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but...
VINCENT MCNABB
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If what we see is doubtful, how can we believe what is spoken behind the back
CHINESE PROVERBS
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
ROBERT GALBRAITH
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
ALFRED ADLER
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER
A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
YUGOSLAV PROVERB
Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always and indeed then most truly when it ...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing ...
EMINEM
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
CHARLES DICKENS
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My...
DR. SEUSS
Truth is a tendency.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
I think I have already spoken a lot. Now it is time for me to play.
SACHIN TENDULKAR
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
JOHN RUSSELL
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1)
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom
JOHN RUSSELL
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
HENRI-FRÉDERIC AMIEL
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
WILLIAM SLOAN COFFIN
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Truth is its own reward.
PLATO
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same ti...
DAVID BOWIE
The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.
DAVID MITCHELL
Truth is first felt in the heart before the mind. Those that look for truth through the mind before ...
SUZY KASSEM
I think it's dangerous any time you spend money before it's in your hand. You never know what's goin...
CINDY HOCKENBERRY
The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in wo...
ALAN GARNER
It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning t...
DYLAN MORAN
Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now-always and indeed then most truly when it see...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
This is a worldwide and still very dangerous threat and is well within what he has said before.
MICHAEL SCHEUER
Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB
firstly, prayer is a conversation between God and the soul, and secondly, a particular language is s...
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR

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