I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.
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 know nothing.
You can tell the future?' 'More like the future mugs me from time to time. ' Rachel said 'I speak prophecies. The oracle spirit kind of hijacks me once in a while, and speaks important stuff that doesn't make any sense to anybody. But yeah, the prophecies tell the future.
Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
Man's conscience is the oracle of God.
The main thing is to study pictures and stop listening to the pontifictaions of photographers. Photographers aren't oracles of wisdom. If they're good photographers, then take a good look at their pictures - what else do you need?
Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.
No infallible oracle out of the breast.
Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.
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.
Socrates. . . Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.
So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.
Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.
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.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.
Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.
I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be restricted by the rules of Donatus [a well-known grammarian].
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.
