Exaggerated Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exaggerated History Poet Poetry Standards Truth
History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same. — A. L. Rowse Copy Share Image
History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“History loved to lie, through simple distortion or complete fabrication. Lies were the cosmetics of history, and when history could not be beautiful, it… — Sean DeLauder Copy Share Image
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“When history seems to offer no sanctuary for values (when history is assailed by wars and inhuman or immoral public actions), literature can provide… — Beatriz Sarlo Copy Share Image
History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy. — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Copy Share Image
For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Men and women dream the same amount. The main difference in dream content relates to biology and life events. Women dream about their fertility,… — Charles McPhee Copy Share Image
I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated. — Al-Waleed bin Talal Copy Share Image
All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles. — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing. — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have… — Elisabeth of Wied Copy Share Image
I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You can't be a full tranny every day of the week that's an exaggerated part of my personality. — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
“I know why she cried like that. She cried because she wasn't finished grieving the loss of me. When someone has an exaggerated emotional… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
That men, in reality, did not have friends in other men. That the fellowship of men, despite its joyous banter, old memories of exaggerated… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
