Exaggeration Quote by Honore de Balzac

The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia…

— Robertson Davies

There are so many examples today of how the kind of wonderful zealousness and unquestioning loyalty of young people can be harnessed by all…

— Emma Donoghue

“We may think we are praising and encouraging the young by predicting great things for them, but the burden of our expectations may shame…

— Cornelius Plantinga Jr

Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary…

— George Eliot

cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the…

— Fanny Kemble

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

— Sophie Swetchine

One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are…

— Thomas Sowell

They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition…

— Aristotle

“What the world stigmatises as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the generous ideas of…

— Anne Brontë

Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything.

— Anonymous

“Children are accustomed to a continual stream of criticisms and praise, but adults can go weeks without a compliment while enduring criticism both at…

— Scott Adams