Exaggeration Quote by Jean-Francois de La Harpe Download Open image “To exaggerate is to weaken.” — Jean-Francois de La Harpe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exaggeration Funny Inspirational Love
“If you use the term 'over-exaggerate,' you know the definition neither of 'exaggerate' nor of 'over.” — Rodney Ulyate Copy Share Image
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
“Never exaggerate. It is a matter of great importance to forego superlatives, in part to avoid offending the truth, and in part to avoid… — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
“Exaggeration is a standard peculiarity of man. To deprecate is often a form of exaggeration which people do not notice, because it appears to… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Exaggeration is the political pundits' stock in trade: nobody built a loyal readership on equivocation. — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. — Jean-Francois de La Harpe Copy Share Image
To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student. — Jean-Francois de La Harpe Copy Share Image
Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. — Jean-Francois de La Harpe 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
