“But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it’s never enough. You also must run.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The most perfect barrier to learning a thing is the belief that is it already known” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. The power struggle permeates the training, education and disciplining of the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“I observed you in pain, lad. Pain’s merely the axis of the test. Your mother’s told you about our ways of observing.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Ignoring that which is false is also a knowing. Thus—learning. To learn is to grow and to grow is to live. You… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity.” Odrade explaining. “The young must be damped down. Never let them know how good they… — 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
Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles) are… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory this way, but the moments of study… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Have you noticed, Stil, how beautiful the young women are this year?” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
