A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow… — 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
“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
This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief… — 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
The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences — 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
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language. — 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
“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
“The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable—slightly euphoric. And, like life, never to be truly… — 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
