Quotes of Seer - somelinesforyou

“ To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“ A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. ”

- Bible

“ And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. ”

- Bible

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

- William Shakespeare

“ Music is the art of the prophets, the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. ”

- Martin Luther

“ A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house. ”

- Bible

“ 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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them," A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. ”

- Bible

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

- E. H. Chapin

“ Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better. ”

- Lorraine Hansberry

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

- Bible

“ The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream. ”

- John Dryden

“ For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. ”

- Bible

“ I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams. ”

- John Vance Cheney

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

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Bible

“ Dada covers things with an artificial tenderness. It is snowing butterflies that have escaped from a prophet's head. ”

- Tristan Tzara

“ Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything. ”

- Edgar R. Fiedler

“ A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. ”

- Bible

“ The well-adjusted make poor prophets. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you. ”

- Bible

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

- Karl Popper

“ This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all. ”

- Richard Cobden

“ We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ 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

“ 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

“ We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of the scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being. ”

- Deepak Chopra
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