Exaggeration Quotes - page 4

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. (Milan Kundera)
By a pardonable abridgment of history, the Rationalist character may be seen springing from the exaggeration of Bacon's hopes and the neglect of the scepticism of Descartes; modern Rationalism is what commonplace minds made out of the inspiration of men of discrimination and genius. View quote
Michael Oakeshott
A lot of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance. View quote
Marco Pierre White
Exaggeration can lend action scenes more force, but I like to stick to more realistic figures: They help keep the cool in the action scenes, although they may be not as forceful as the exaggerated ones. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
A six-inch blade. I smiled. Did he buy it? It was actually just shy of four-but very nicely weighted-and as Aunt Bernice noted, a little exaggeration was always expected when describing weapons, victories, and body parts. View quote
Mary E. Pearson
It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of Americas foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region. View quote
Reza Aslan
I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet. But, I literally work all day, every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and that's not an exaggeration. View quote
Seth Grahame-Smith
The list of cities lost was long and disheartening, even granting exaggeration by the reporters. Soldiers defeated always overestimate the strength of their foe. That soothes egos suspecting their own inferiority. View quote
Glen Cook
That was not an exaggeration, that was an outright fabrication. View quote
Glen Cook
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value? View quote
Jack Kornfield
It is necessary to protect oneself from over exaggeration; one must not suppose that there exists, even in the realm of partial memory, an absolutely pure auditory type; real life does not make such schemas... In reality, when one says that a person belongs to the auditory type... one wants to say simply that with regard to that person the auditory memory is preponderant. (Alfred Binet)
The upshot of her tirade was that I was the devil's spawn and should be locked up in a tower before I unleashed hordes of the living dead to slaughter them all in their sleep. Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but not by much. View quote
Kelley Armstrong
I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that. View quote
Claire LaZebnik
I even belief that the schools and artistic movements is past. After the Romantic movement, born of classicizing exaggeration, after the Realist movement, product of the follies of Romanticism, it may be seen that there is a great foolishness in all these ideas. We are going to achieve a personal manner of feeling. View quote
Henri Fantin-Latour
To swim in the open sky. To achieve the tenderness of clouds. To suspend these masses in the distance, very far away in the grey mist, make the blue explode. I feel all this coming, dawning in my intentions. What joy and what torment! If the bottom were still, perhaps I would never reach these depths. Did they do better in the past? Did the Dutch achieve the poetry of clouds I seek? That tenderness of the sky which even extends to admiration, to worship: it is no exaggeration. View quote
Eugène Boudin
Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have. View quote
Bo Bennett
Exaggeration is my only reality. View quote
Diana Vreeland
Exaggeration of confidence,” he said, "is a fault in people who don't know their business. View quote
Gordon R. Dickson
V. Bérard attributed the [Greece and Israel] links mainly to the role of the Phoenicians. P. Jensen explained matters through the diffusion of the Gilgamesh Epic. ...but their one-sidedness and exaggeration brought them, and indeed the problem itself, into disrepute among critical scholars. The history of the problem has been ably documented by W. Baumgartner... View quote
Cyrus H. Gordon
The single most important stimulus to my thought came by chance when I took a course from Robert Redfield entitled "Folk Society." ...His approach was to set up antithetical ideal types, expecting to locate any actual human community somewhere along the spectrum of opposites his fieldwork had suggested to him.... But in 1936 his typology had no time dimension. I was so strongly attracted to his scheme that it is scarcely an exaggeration to describe my subsequent intellectual effort as an attempt to explore the missing time dimension of social change as Redfield envisaged it, not in Yucatan but around the whole earth and across recorded time. View quote
William H. McNeill
Kuhn had the genius to find the words and sketch the concepts that made important old philosophical problems relevant to the public and newly discussable by philosophers. He had the strength of mind and commitment to lead the discussion. He could speak the truly incommensurable languages of physics, philosophy, and history, all necessary to frame and advance his epistemological quest. He wrote, as one of his admirers, Margaret Masterman, put it, in a "quasi-poetic style," sometimes veiled, sometimes with "rhetorical exaggeration," but always after careful and even painful thought. Or, to switch metaphors, he drew the portrait of science in the manner of the Impressionists. At a distance, where most viewers stand, the portrait appears illuminating, persuasive, and inspiring; close in, where historians and philosophers stare, it looks sketchy, puzzling, and richly challenging. (John L. Heilbron)
It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression. View quote
Ahmed Yassin
I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager. View quote
Clara Hughes
An insult comic is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings. View quote
Don Rickles
Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life. View quote
Daniel Alarcon