Truth Quote by Victor Hugo

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that…

— Victor Hugo

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

— Baltasar Gracian

“An exaggeration is a truth that has lost it's temper.”

— Kahlil Gibran

“For this is one of those disheartening instances where truth requires full as much bolstering as error.”

— Herman Melville

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

— Hosea Ballou

The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of…

— Tom Robbins

“You exaggerate everything. You continually force the truth because you're always looking for something.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out…

— Anonymous

“To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again,…

— George Orwell

“The truth is a powerful force. It is the foundation of all things. The truth is so all-consuming that it cannot be denied. You…

— John Lewis

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

— Anonymous

“If the truth should be complex and somewhat disillusioning, it would still not be a merit to substitute for it some more dramatic and…

— Clarence Irving Lewis