Famous quotes containing the word incapable:
“[The Federalist Party are m]ore partial to the opulent than to the other classes of society; and [have] debauched themselves into a persuasion that mankind are incapable of governing themselves.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. Some minds are incapable of skepticism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)