Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“We know this moment of supreme power contained Failure. There can only be one answer. That completely accurate and total prediction is… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“It’s an old, old trick of autocratic rule,” Idaho said. “Alia knows it well. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“if I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. There's no doubt of it. I just don't… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“There’s a Bene Gesserit saying,” she said. “You have sayings for everything!” he protested. “You’ll like this one,” she said. “It goes:… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible) choices are not know,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“When a Truthsayer's gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory - in her body's memory. We look… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few… — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“I will tell you this only once. Homosexuals have been among the best warriors in our history, the berserkers of last resort. They were… — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share
The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer. — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty—which was to step aside and vanish into history.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share
Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an assault on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous ignorance. This… — Frank Herbert Copy Share
Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking. — Frank Herbert Copy Share
If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space. — Frank Herbert Copy Share
