Quotes by Oracles Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred. Alexander Hamilton unequivocaloraclessacred 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-experienceoraclespublic-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 oraclesportraitsprofound SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos. Bill Vaughan saporaclesbecoming 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 oraclesvisionariesworld 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 oraclesutteranceage 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 oraclesbattlemay 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 oraclesorganizationthinking Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. Edwin Hubbel Chapin oraclespoetryheart No infallible oracle out of the breast. Frederic Henry Hedge infalliblebreastsoracles The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign Heraclitus oracleslordgiving The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles. Henry David Thoreau oraclescalmliterature Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations. John Twelve Hawks oraclesthese-dayssound Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men. John Milton oracleswellsmen I'm a librarian, not an oracle. Libba Bray librarianoracles Man's conscience is the oracle of God. Lord Byron oraclesconsciencemen Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all. Luis Barragan oraclesspeak Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the near post Martin Tyler oraclestryingsoccer The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us. Paul Valery oraclesfollyoneself There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend. Plutarch oraclestoo-muchtwo12»
