Complexity Quote by Thomas Sowell

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“There is a difference between being ‘simplistic’ and having simple answers to complex questions.”

— Sergei Kostin

“We prefer simple lies to complex truths.”

— Gunther Boccius

“If the truth should be complex and somewhat disillusioning, it would still not be a merit to substitute for it some more dramatic and…

— Clarence Irving Lewis

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

— Terry Pratchett

Humans need simplifications in order to understand almost anything complex. That's one of our basic biases!

— Bryan Johnson

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

— Josh Billings

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

— Isaac Newton

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller,…

— Ann Patchett

Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion.…

— Walter Lippmann