A Quote by Voltaire

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

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Voltaire
French - Writer
November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

Spooning a seasonal fruit relish onto a plate of grilled king salmon is very much my style - flavorful, straightforward, and unfussy. I also like the way fresh, ripe fruit balances the richness of the salmon.

Tom Douglas

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't care less if I were to fall overripe to the ground.

Kiki Dimoula

To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand, Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.

Thiruvalluvar

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past.

James Russell Lowell

Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability.

Jane Goodall

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

Alphonse de Lamartine

There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

Publilius Syrus

There is ripe fruit over your head.

Henry David Thoreau

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Soren Kierkegaard

If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.

Evelyn Waugh

But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one has never reflected upon retards the advance of reason. Our world rots in deceit. . . . Just as a tree bears the same fruit year after year and at the same time fruit that is new each year, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually created anew in thought. But our age pretends to make a sterile tree bear fruit by tying fruits of truth onto its branches.

Albert Schweitzer

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

Jean de la Bruyere

A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.

Natalie Clifford Barney

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind. Nor think I that God's world would fall apart Because we tear a parchment more or less. Truth is eternal, but her effluence, With endless change, is fitted to the hour; Her mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past. I do not fear to follow out the truth.

James Russell Lowell

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