Oracular Quotes

#1. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse.

Arthur Koestler

#2. Once truth had become oracular rather than factual, evidence was irrelevant.

Timothy Snyder

#3. If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#4. True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

William James

#5. In those days I coerced
Oracular assurance
In my favour out of every sign.

Ted Hughes

#6. a statement by Bertrand Russell ... embodies the tone of heroic denunciation that you can muster only if you have drunk deeply from the cup of your own oracular majesty

David Brooks

#7. As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.

Gary Wolf

#8. You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

Nate Silver

#9. there had been times in the past when my sister-in-law's counsel, while never useful, had provided a certain amount of welcome bemusement, like the advice of an oracular hen.

Michael Chabon

#10. Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,
by consulting the oracular dead.

Augustus William Hare

#11. Am I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and half oracular demigods?

Dahlia Lithwick

#12. A name could be either a ghost or a portent depending on which side of time you were standing. The name Whaletown had become a mere specter of the past, a crepuscular Pacific shimmer, but the name Desolation Sound still hovered in the liminal space and felt to her both oracular and haunted.

Ruth Ozeki

#13. Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

Jacques Derrida

#14. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#15. Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.

Manly Hall

#16. Her mouth was a gash of red, like the torn-open stomach of a sacrifice, bloody and oracular. Behind it her teeth shone sharp and white as bone.

Madeline Miller

#17. True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#18. Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith? 41

Anonymous

#19. I never watched wrestling, I was never a fan of wrestling really.

George Steele

#20. Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Maxwell Maltz

#21. Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs.

Michael Josephson

#22. As long as one writes only for oneself, writing is a free act by means of which, to use an oxymoron, one secretly opens oneself.

Elena Ferrante

#23. The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.

H.G.Wells

#24. A woman counsels caution, while a man's heart burns to see justice done.

Catherine M. Wilson