Oracles Quotes

Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision

There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.

When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign

Scratching people where they itch and addressing their 'felt needs' is a stratagem of the poor steward of the oracles of God. This was the recipe for success for the false prophets of the Old Testament.

The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.

I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be restricted by the rules of Donatus [a well-known grammarian].

Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.

No infallible oracle out of the breast.

Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He's thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers.

Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be a profound likeness, which physically and morally predicts the subject's entire future.

Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser.

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.

Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the near post