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

Alexander Hamilton
unequivocal oracles sacred

There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective members...This language at the present day would appear as wild as that great part of what we now hear from the same quarter will be thought, when we shall have received further lessons from that best oracle of wisdom, experience.

Alexander Hamilton
wisdom-experience oracles public-opinion

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.

Bill Brandt
oracles portraits profound
SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in... by Bill Vaughan

SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.

Bill Vaughan
sap oracles becoming

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.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes
oracles visionaries world

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.

C.P. Cavafy
oracles utterance age

Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure the few natural events, that are intermingled with them. But as the former grow thinner every pagewe soon learn, that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in the case, but that all proceeds from the usual propensity of mankind towards the marvellous, and that, though this inclination may at intervals receive a check from sense and learning, it can never be thoroughly extirpated.

David Hume
oracles battle may

I certainly don't think we [The Elders organization] are oracles but I would hope that over our lifetimes we have accumulated some useful experience and perhaps even a modicum of wisdom! We don't have all the answers.

Desmond Tutu
oracles organization thinking
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true p... by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

Edwin Hubbel Chapin
oracles poetry heart

No infallible oracle out of the breast.

Frederic Henry Hedge
infallible breasts oracles
The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals,... by Heraclitus

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

Heraclitus
oracles lord giving

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

Henry David Thoreau
oracles calm literature
Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with e... by John Twelve Hawks

Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.

John Twelve Hawks
oracles these-days sound
Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of me... by John Milton

Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

John Milton
oracles wells men
I'm a librarian, not an oracle. by Libba Bray

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

Libba Bray
librarian oracles
Man's conscience is the oracle of God. by Lord Byron

Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

Lord Byron
oracles conscience men
Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all. by Luis Barragan

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

Luis Barragan
oracles speak
Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the ne... by Martin Tyler

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

Martin Tyler
oracles trying soccer
The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into... by Paul Valery

The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.

Paul Valery
oracles folly oneself

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

Plutarch
oracles too-much two
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