Famous quotes containing the word incapable:
“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skins and furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)