Exaggeration Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of…

— Henry David Thoreau

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

— Voltaire

“The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of…

— Henry David Thoreau

We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection…

— Giacomo Leopardi

All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are:…

— Blaise Pascal

Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for…

— Charles Dickens

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

— Thomas Carlyle

The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man…

— Mark Twain

Man's greatness lies in the power of thought

— AB

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

— Blaise Pascal