If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“We shouldn’t have tried to create new symbols,” he said. We should’ve realized we weren’t supposed to introduce uncertainties into accepted belief,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“He was aware now of many things—of statecraft and profound consequences in the smallest decisions. Yet he felt this knowledge and subtlety… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“They thought of frustration as a threshold, a factor to heighten awareness. It” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The freman are civil, educated and ignorant. They are not mad. They are trained to believe not to know. Believe can be… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Every judgment teeters on the brink of error,” Leto explained. “To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending… — 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
