John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Truth resists simplicity.

When I asked my mother, ‘how do I tell people about you’ her answer was ‘tell the truth’. But of course, the truth is never simple.

Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Sometimes it is necessary to make things clearer than the truth.

What is simple is false and what is not is useless.

What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.

Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.

Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.

What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.

Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

Keep your lies short and simple.

You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.

The truth is rarely true and never simple.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.