The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking. — 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
You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Often I must Speak otherwise than I Think. This is Called Diplomacy. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s… — 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
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be… — 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
Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know… — 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
