Oracle Quotes

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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
Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the near post — Martin Tyler
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
We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution. — Rufus Choate
During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the… — James Gosling
Seek above all for a game worth playing- such is the advice of the oracle to modern man. — Robert S. de Ropp
Man's conscience is the oracle of God. — Lord Byron
Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men. — John Milton
Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
God always was, and always is, and always will be. Or rather, God always Is. For Was and Will be are fragments of our time,… — Gregory of Nazianzus
Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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… — Mark Hall
I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark. — William Shakespeare
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Since 'the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force' (Mt. 11:12), and it is impossible for the faithful to enter… — Symeon the New Theologian
The Delphic Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone of all the Greeks know that I… — Socrates
This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of… — Richard Cobden
The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us. — Paul Valery
Mary lived in the divine Eucharist, the center of her love. All her thoughts, words, and actions sprang from It like the rays from the… — Peter Julian Eymard
Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are… — Maxwell Maltz

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