The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“If you put away those who report accurately, you’ll keep only those who know what you want to hear,” Jessica” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“If you put away those who report accurately, you’ll keep only those who know what you want to hear. I can think… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour… — 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
“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
