Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our…

— Richard M. Weaver

It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the…

— Maria Callas

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Fuck anybody who’d call a hill a mountain and name it after themselves.”

— A.D. Aliwat

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

— George Bernard Shaw

Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a light which…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

God is exaggeration run amuck George H

— Anonymous

My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the…

— Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all.

— Wolfgang Kohler

On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate…

— Ramez Naam

“That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that stuff about…

— Wallace Stegner

It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation,…

— Robin Marantz Henig

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian…

— John Updike