A Quote by Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

The greatest truths are commonly the simplest.

Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

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Commonly Greatest Simplest Truths

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Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes
French - Statesman
December 6, 1721 - April 22, 1794

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Julius Charles Hare

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

Swami Vivekananda

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

Frances Wright

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

Henry David Thoreau

Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.

John Wilkins

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

Frederick Douglass

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Ernest Renan

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

William James

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

Christopher Hitchens

There are certain truths which stand out so openly on the roadsides of life, as it were, that every passer-by may see them. Yet, because of their obviousness, the general run of people disregard such truths or at least they do not make them the object of any concious knowledge. People are so bliend to some of the simplest facts in everyday life that they are highly surprised when somebody calls attention to what everybody ought to know.

Adolf Hitler

I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.

Deborah Sampson

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

William Golding

There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only truths of definition. These definitions rest upon simple, but abstract, suppositions, and all truths in this category are only constructed, but abstract, consequences of these definitions ... Physical truths, to the contrary, are in no way arbitrary, and do not depend on us.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

Noam Chomsky

There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work.