Exaggeration Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exaggeration Exaggeration is Greater Inspirational Love Men Small man
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Only small men are incapable of seeing something greater than themselves” — Christian Cameron Copy Share Image
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man. — Mencius Copy Share Image
if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well, if he… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small. — Philippe Nericault Destouches Copy Share Image
One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Somebody accumulates a lot of muscle and think himself to be a big man. But this big man is only big when all around… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
It does not matter the size of the man, rather the amount of effort the man is willing to put forth — Woody Hayes 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
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 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
To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Fuck anybody who’d call a hill a mountain and name it after themselves.” — A.D. Aliwat Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all. — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
