Thomas Reid Quote

Men are often led into errors by the love of simplicity, which disposes us to reduce things to few principles, and to conceive a greater simplicity in nature than there really is.


Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, Essay VI, Chapter VIII (p. 656), Printed for John Bell. 1785


Men are often led into errors by the love of simplicity, which disposes us to reduce things to few principles, and to conceive a greater simplicity...

Men are often led into errors by the love of simplicity, which disposes us to reduce things to few principles, and to conceive a greater simplicity...

Men are often led into errors by the love of simplicity, which disposes us to reduce things to few principles, and to conceive a greater simplicity...

Men are often led into errors by the love of simplicity, which disposes us to reduce things to few principles, and to conceive a greater simplicity...