“Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.”– Khalil Gibran Related Quotes “Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.”– Francois de La Rochefoucauld “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”– Marcus Aurelius “There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.”– Bette Davis