Best Oracles Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Book Of Ordinary Oracles: Use Pocket Change, Popsicle Sticks, a TV Remote, this Book, and More to Predict the Future and Answer Your Questions

“What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.”

Thinking World Needs Ends Enough Bigs Happens Energy Levels Focus Users Microsoft Oracles Ibm User Experience

Author:Aaron Levie

“One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.”

Knows Mean Ballots Nuisance Oracles

Author:Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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

Built Oneself Folly Oracles

Author: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 sun. The Eucharist was the oracle which she consulted, the grace which she followed. But Jesus Christ in His Sacrament lives the same life of love which consumed Him in His mortal days. In His sacramental state He continues to adore His Father by His depthless self-abasement. He is still the Mediator and Interceder with divine goodness for the salvation of men”

“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.”

Men Age Common Praise Find Me Neglected Legislators Oracles

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

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

Running Voice Dumb Deceiving Roof Hideous Oracles

Book:Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author

Source: Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author

“Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.”

Mind Mean Self Feelings Stars Fate Written Holy Anxiety Spring Decided Self Confidence Heavenly Oracles Cybernetics Psycho Cybernetics Lack Of Self Confidence Written In The Stars

Book:Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded

Source: Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded

“Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.”

Speak Oracles

Author:Luis Barragan

“I know just as well what to teach this people and just what to say to them and what to do in order to bring them into the celestial kingdom...I have never yet preached a sermon and sent it out to the children of men, that they may not call Scripture. Let me have the privilege of correcting a sermon, and it is as good Scripture as they deserve. The people have the oracles of God continually.”

People Knows Men Wells May Children Order Teach Deserve Let Me Privilege Scripture Kingdoms Sermons Celestial Correcting Oracles Children Of Men

Author:Brigham Young

“We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by it! We go on, from week to week, year to year, with things which have no foundation whatever in its pages- yea, with things utterly opposed to its teaching; and, all the while, we boast of having the Scriptures, just like the Jews of old, who made their boast of having the oracles of God, while those very oracles condemned themselves and their ways, and left them without a single plea.”

Knows Way Years Littles Made Hands Christian Left Week Teaching Goes On Pages Foundation Jew Scripture Boast Oracles

Author:Charles Henry Mackintosh

“Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of Nature and its laws . Magic is the science of the Ancient Magi: and the Christian religion, which has imposed silence on the lying oracles, and put an end to the prestiges of the false Gods , itself reveres those Magi who came from the East, guided by a Star , to adore the Saviour of the world in His cradle.”

World Ends Christian Law Lying Stars Silence Magic Absolutes Mathematics Ancient East Adore Cradle Saviour Prestige Oracles False Gods

Book:Morals and Dogma

Source: Morals and Dogma

“Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hard-working, and intent men -- their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others.”

Men Hard Found He Man Hard Work Genius Highest Chiefs Dumb Characteristics Oracles True Genius

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“"You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not. Why should I? But the Oracle did not ask me to carry out its decision." [...] "The Earth cannot punish me for obeying her mesenger," Okonkwo said. "A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm."”

Ifs Should Children Said Earth Mother Dies Asks Sound Decision Pieces Authority Hot Fingers Ask Me Should I Palms Obeying Oracles Things Fall Apart Okonkwo Yams Okonkwo

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming white light into the darkness as a landing beam for UFOs, and everywhere neon oracles and twisting screens predict happiness and good fortune, announce singers and comedians and magicians in residence or on their way, and the lights always flash and beckon and call.”

Source: American Gods

“And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima .”

Men Made Said Body Might Spirit Taken Events Fit Speech Mad Prophet Prophecy Caves Mad Men Oracles Intoxicated Vapor Gentiles Delphi

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a woman has only one summer; if she does not make hay while the sun shines, no one will afterwards have anything to say to her, and she spends her days consulting oracles that never send her a husband.”

Ifs Doe War Young White Sun Wife Hair Return Husband Summer Shining Soldier Consulting Oracles Hay Sun Shines White Hair Young Wife

Author:Aristophanes

“The people of your world became so stupid and rude that my companions and I no longer enjoyed teaching them. You must surely have heard of us: we were called oracles, nymphs, spirits, fairies, household gods, lemures, larvas, lamias, sprites, water-nymphs, incubi, shades, spirits of the dead, specters and ghosts.”

People World Spirit Water Heard Teaching Stupid Ghost Enjoyed Fairy Companion Shade Household Rude Oracles Nymphs

Author:Cyrano de Bergerac

“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.”

Thinking Answers Organization Lifetime Elders Oracles

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Population trends have always provoked doom-fraught oracles, because their popular interpreters suppose that every new series will be infinitely sustained; yet, beyond the short term, expectations based on them are never fulfilled.”

Term Expectations Series Population Trends Fulfilled Doom Short Term Interpreter Oracles Provoked

Author:Thomas Malthus

“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.”

Stills Enough Age Three Given Enjoy Heard Danger Plenty Worried Thirty Seventies Deadline Utterance Oracles Nero

Author:C.P. Cavafy

“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.”

Men World Mean Wisdom Seems Wise Effects This World Foolishness Oracles

Author:Plato

“When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.”

Men Said Death Turns Voice Common Draws Horse Dust Great Men Oracles

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)

“Friends given by God in mercy and in love; My counsellors, my comforters, and guides; My joy in grief, my second bliss in joy; Companions of my young desires; in doubt My oracles; my wings in high pursuit. Oh! I remember, and will ne'er forget Our meeting spots, our chosen sacred hours; Our burning words, that utter'd all the soul, Our faces beaming with unearthly love;-- Sorrow with sorrow sighing, hope with hope Exulting, heart embracing heart entire.”

“If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it - a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do. So it is not disruptive at all - you have to find places to add value. Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane. We don't have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source.”

Ifs Enough Would Be Values Fighting Company Support Products Source Add Great Things Insane Good Enough Competing Exploits Disruptive Oracles Open Source

Author:Larry Ellison

“Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver.”

World Night Numbers Player Heard Day And Night Oracles

Author:Safra A. Catz

“No infallible oracle out of the breast.”

Conscience Breasts Infallible Oracles

Book:Reason in Religion

Source: Reason in Religion

“SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.”

States Becoming Standards Chaos Software Sap Oracles

Author:Bill Vaughan

“When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, Convert this to Android format.”

Writing Ends Use Program Tools Buttons Format Oracles Java Androids

Author:Larry Ellison

“There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond; And do a willful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dressed in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit; As who should say, I am sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!”

Men Should Wisdom Purpose Opinion Dog Standing Profound Lips Appearance Stillness Gravity Cream Conceit Bark Merchants Ponds Oracles Self-importance Merchant Of Venice

Author:William Shakespeare

“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].”

Thinking Should Wells Known Cases Scary Construction Despise Well Known Celestial Oracles

Author:Pope Gregory I

“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.”

“I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.”

People Feels Wanted Magic Figures Expectations Wave Dust Wands Oracles Public Figures Sprinkles Magic Wands

Author:Carl Honore

“My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity.”

Men May Law Vision Divinity Renewal Old Days Oracles

Book:President Wilson's Addresses

Source: President Wilson's Addresses

“I was not at all worried about finding my doctor boring; I expected from him, thanks to an art of which the laws escaped me, that he pronounce concerning my health an indisputable oracle by consulting my entrails.”

Art Law Findings Doctors Boring Expected Thanks Worried Consulting Oracles

Author:Marcel Proust

“Every man is a hero or oracle to someone. And that person has enhanced value.”

Men Persons Values Leadership Hero Every Man Oracles

Author:Johnny Hunt

“To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'”

Christian Sin Sun Anger Bravery Angry Wrath Oracles Sins Not

Book:Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately

Source: Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately

“You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need to consult; for whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you.”

Way Needs Heart Body Christian Asks Christ Religious Humility Arms New Ways Dwelling Resignation Meekness Oracles Dwelling Place

Book:The Spirit of Love; A Short Confutation of Dr. Warburton's Defence; Of Justification by Faith and Works, Volume 8: Of Justification by Faith and Works

Source: The Spirit of Love; A Short Confutation of Dr. Warburton's Defence; Of Justification by Faith and Works, Volume 8: Of Justification by Faith and Works

“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 be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.”

Men Stills Voice Silence Heard Land Taught Glory Conscience Gains Creeds Oracles Small Voice

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.”

Firsts Lasts Deals Equal Excellence Wit Ambiguity Oracles Imposter

Book:The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life

Source: The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life

“Thought is fugitive; the mind does not repeat itself; if you do not catch the whisperings of the oracle as they come to you, they are lost forever. You must-and this is absolutely essential-convince yourselves that what is offered you this very moment will never be offered again.”

Ifs Mind Doe Moments Lost Forever Essentials Repeats Convince Whispering Fugitive Oracles

Author:Jean Guitton

“We are living in the era of the busybody. In ancient Greece, if a person wanted guidance, it involved a long, arduous expensive journey to consult the oracle at Delphi. Today, if you want guidance, all you have to do is unplug your ears.”