Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are living in the era of the busybody. In ancient Greece, if a person wanted guidance, it involved a long, arduous… — Margo Kaufman Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think we [The Elders organization] are oracles but I would hope that over our lifetimes we have accumulated some… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The Delphic Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone of all the Greeks… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of… — Plato Copy Share Image
From all human oracles, however self-confident, we turn at last to the inspired Word, where instead of ambiguous and untrustworthy utterances, we… — Arthur Tappan Pierson Copy Share Image
I know just as well what to teach this people and just what to say to them and what to do in… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
They have removed the struggle to find anything. And therefore there is no genuine sense of discovery. Struggle is the first thing… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
And every stone and every star a tongue, And every gale of wind a curious song. The Heavens were an oracle, and… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need… — William Law Copy Share Image
Friends given by God in mercy and in love; My counsellors, my comforters, and guides; My joy in grief, my second bliss… — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
The Oracle rose. As one, the three witches bowed. "See?" Bran jerked his thumb at the three women. "That's how a woman… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to… — John Morley Copy Share Image
Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Population trends have always provoked doom-fraught oracles, because their popular interpreters suppose that every new series will be infinitely sustained; yet, beyond… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they… — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If the DHS insists, as bureaucracies are apt to do, that open-source must be certified via a sanctioned, formal process, it will… — Mark Hall Copy Share Image
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by… — Charles Henry Mackintosh Copy Share Image
The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I say to Israel, the Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this Church to… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The people of your world became so stupid and rude that my companions and I no longer enjoyed teaching them. You must… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
What is a totem? It is as a rule an animal (whether edible and harmless or dangerous and feared) and more rarely… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
IBM has had a long partnership with Siebel, JD Edwards and Peoplesoft, so from a partner perspective, this is a good move… — Stephen Graham Copy Share Image
When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they… — James Gleick Copy Share Image