Quotes of Oracle - somelinesforyou

“ The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert, and so on. ”

- Noam Chomsky

“ The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New. ”

- Adam Clarke

“ We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. ”

- Karl Popper

“ The well-adjusted make poor prophets. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain. ”

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“ And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. ”

- Bible

“ Day of wrath that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning, All the world to ashes turning. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets. ”

- Bible

“ I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. ”

- Socrates

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

- John Milton

“ I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible. ”

- William James

“ I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The past is the best way to suppose what may come. ”

- Edward F. Halifax

“ The past is the best prophet of the future. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Hence it comes about that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ Vacation Through an Apocalypse. ”

- Howell Raines

“ A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. ”

- Bible

“ He shall know that there is a prophet in Israel. ”

- Bible

“ Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table. ”

- Bible

“ It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle. ”

- Edward Hubbell Chaplin

“ Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth — the true poet is very near the oracle. ”

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“ They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. ”

- John Morley

“ Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ A Delphic sword. ”

- Aristotle

“ The best of prophets of the future is the past. ”

- Lord Byron

“ We are all at times unconscious prophets. ”

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“ The wisest prophets make sure of the event first. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ The historian is a prophet looking backwards. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel
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