Quotes about Exaggeration
It is possible, of course, that I may exaggerate about them. I certainly hope that I do; for where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding. It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiassed opinion is always valueless.
— Oscar Wilde
We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.
— Oscar Wilde
To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
— Henry David Thoreau
ANOTHER characteristic of the devil's moral theology is the exaggeration of all distinctions between this and that, good and evil, right and wrong. These distinctions become irreducible divisions.
— Thomas Merton
ANOTHER characteristic of the devil's moral theology is the exaggeration of all distinctions between this and that, good and evil, right and wrong. These distinctions become irreducible divisions.
— Thomas Merton
Being in Christ is both gift and task, privilege and responsibility. Exaggerate the gift, and you risk antinomian complacency; exaggerate the responsibility, and you risk legalistic anxiety.
— Kevin Vanhoozer
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
— Khalil Gibran
Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.
— Bill Johnson
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
— Mark Twain
Exaggerated, overstated, inflated, irrational thoughts are the devil's specialty.
— Max Lucado
Every virtue that reaches the exaggeration, is becoming a defect
— Steven Pressfield