Quotes about Oracle

A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all, but a man of more than average moral instincts, who if he knows anything, knows how little he knows.

Pretty, but badly dressed, breath of an oracle which had passed by her and vanished after depositing in her heart one of the two germs which must afterwards fill the whole life of the woman, coquetry. Love is the other.

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

The general claim of the oracle is that a new regime of peace and well-being will displace the older (Roman) order of violence and extortion.

Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.