Asif Kapadia Quotes

People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, 'Hardly.' You can know every single ingredient in a piece of chocolate cake, and then when you sit down and eat that cake, you can still feel that joy.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

He is the only politician who knows anything about art.

I have never found, in a long experience in politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Men's wisdom increases with reference to what lies before them.

If you understand how a rainbow works, it does not make it less magnificent; it makes it more magnificent.

I don’t think anything about Einstein’s theory because I don’t understand it.

With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.

There are creative benefits to getting older.

I feel like there's value in experience.

You could say that as I've gotten more mature, I've acquired more manure.

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.