exaggeration, n.Definitions

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

Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

Exaggeration is inseparable from the passions, and passions are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Exaggeration is so thorough in some people that they can't tell the truth without lying.

Exaggeration is adding to the truth in a way that ultimately subtracts from it.

Exaggeration is Unwise —- it is a rule of manners to avoid it.

Exaggeration is at the core of all speaking and of every concept. By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

Exaggeration is often necessary. Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.