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"Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification." »Publilius Syrus
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"Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching." »Oscar Wilde
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"Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin." »The Talmud
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"We must never assume that which is incapable of proof." »G. H. Lewes, Physiology of Common Life
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"This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude." »La Bruyere
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"I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it." »Mary Montagu
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"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience." »George Bernard Shaw
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"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness." »Andrew Schneider
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"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed." »Blaise Pascal
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"Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies." »Earl of Chesterfield
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"Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"People just naturally assume that dogs would be incapable of working together on some sort of construction project. But what about just a big field full of holes" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great things." »La Rochefoucauld
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"A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity." »Robert Anson Heinlein
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"The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed." »Alexis Carrel
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"The Queen Mother, with a lifetime's popularity, seemed incapable of a bad performance as national grandmother-warm, smiling, human, understanding, she embodied everything the public could want of its grandmother." »John Pearson
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"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly." »Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940
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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions." »Albert Einstein
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"For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed." »Blaise Pascal
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