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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heaven, Decision, Reason

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• Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Meaningful, Memorial Day, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2613, Delphi Classics

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• Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Eye, Iron

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen E. Whicher (1959). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.285, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

  Socrates

  Wisdom, Greek, Said

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• 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

  Visionaries, World, Guides

  "Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype". Book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 1992.

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Waiting, Universe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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• His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Heaven, Humanity

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.199, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Plutarch

  Two, Too Much, Judgment

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Literature, Calm, Quiet

  Henry David Thoreau (1862). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. By Henry D. Thoreau”, p.133

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

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Lips, Merchant Of Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

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• Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

  Luis Barragan

  Speak

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• The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

  Paul Valery

  Truth, Honesty, Spring

  "Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci". Book by Paul Valery, 1895.

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• Seek above all for a game worth playing- such is the advice of the oracle to modern man.

  Robert S. de Ropp

  Men, Games, Advice

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Grace, Reason, Given

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.335, Penguin

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• 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.

  Socrates

  Inspiration, Poet

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• The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

  Plato

  Wise, Wisdom, Mean

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• The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.

  John Milton

  Running, Voice, Dumb

  John Milton (1804). “Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.166

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• 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

  Age, Utterance, Nero

  "Constantine P. Cavafy: Collected Poems". Book by Constantine Cavafy, p. 87, 2009.

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

  Rufus Choate

  Temples, Common, Constitution

  Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.345

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• His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Heaven, Earth

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.4800, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If the DHS insists, as bureaucracies are apt to do, that open-source must be certified via a sanctioned, formal process, it will interfere with the informal process of open-source itself. It seems to me the DHS is trying to turn an open-source development project into a Microsoft (or IBM or Oracle) software development project. And we know what that means: more, not fewer, errors -- security and otherwise.

  Mark Hall

  Mean, Errors, Trying

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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

  Sacred, Unequivocal, Federalist

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States”, p.92

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

  Heraclitus

  Giving, Lord, Delphi

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• Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Age, Common

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.167

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

  Paul Valery

  Folly, Oneself, Built

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