Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so… — 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
A world is supported by four things: the learning of wise, the justice of great, the prayers of the righteous and the… — 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