Anatole France Quotes

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.

I always go for simplicity.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

To be simple is no small matter.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

We have a passion for keeping things simple.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

All the great things are simple.

Great men, like nature, use simple language.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

Never overlook the power of simplicity.

People I admire have two qualities: a kind of simplicity, and generosity of spirit. It seems to me that the more impressive people are in what they have done, the simpler they tend to be in how they talk to you, or in what they say or write.

Simple is the language of truth.

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

Simplicity is always a virtue.

I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.

The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.

The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.

Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.