Exaggerating Truth Quotes & Sayings

When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across. — Damien Chazelle

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human. — Sam Francis

I'm much more attracted to the miscegenation of cultures than to harmony. — Neel Mukherjee

41 Never exaggerate. It isn't wise to use superlatives. They offend the truth and cast doubt on your judgment. By exaggerating, you squander your praise and reveal a lack of knowledge and taste. Praise awakens curiosity, which begets desire, and later, when the goods seem overpriced, as often happens, expectation feels cheated and avenges itself by running down the praised and the praiser. The prudent show restraint, and would rather fall short than long. True eminences are rare, so temper your esteem. To overvalue something is a form of lying. It can ruin your reputation for good taste, and - even worse - for wisdom. — Baltasar Gracian

The truth is, that one doesn't really know anything about anybody. Not even the people who are nearest to you...'
'Isn't that going a little too far--exaggerating too much?'
'I don't think it is. When you think of people, it is in the image you have made of them for yourself. — Agatha Christie

As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth. — Bernard Berenson

Pay attention! At all moments of the day you are either leading or being led. — Steve Maraboli

In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium. — Sam Kean

Nature has from the first expanded the minute blossoms of the forest only toward the heavens, above men's heads and unobserved bythem. We see only the flowers that are under our feet in the meadows. — Henry David Thoreau

If something went wrong, don't be sad. It's just God's way to forgive your sins. — A.K.

I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations. — Betty Hill

In the past, America had slaves. Now it has the work ethic. — Marty Rubin

A legacy rises to become culture only when its elements are so common that they no longer attract comment - not because people have lost interest, but because people cannot imagine a world without them. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

For Teaism is the art of concealing beauty that you may discover it, of suggesting what you dare not reveal. It is the noble secret of laughing at yourself, calmly yet thoroughly, and is thus humour itself,
the smile of philosophy. — Okakura Kakuzo