“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
“The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.”
-Paul Valery
“Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The ancient 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.”
-Socrates
“Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.”
-Biblical quote
“Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred”
-James Madison