Time Quotes by Frank Herbert

Money to a writer is time to write.

— Frank Herbert

The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you.

— Frank Herbert

The past is no farther away than your pillow.

— Frank Herbert

“We change our past by what we learn.”

— Frank Herbert

“Only fools prefer the past!”

— Frank Herbert

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

— Frank Herbert

“It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.”

— Frank Herbert

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

— Frank Herbert

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

— Frank Herbert

“The past may show the right way to behave if you live in the past, Stil, but circumstances change.”

— Frank Herbert

The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.

— Frank Herbert

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

— Frank Herbert

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

— Frank Herbert

“A single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future.…

— Frank Herbert

“Earth? Golden Age?" Stilgar was irritated and puzzled. Why would Paul wish to discuss myths from the dawn of time?”

— Frank Herbert

If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't…

— Frank Herbert

Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled…

— Frank Herbert

It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all…

— Frank Herbert

Time can also be a place… Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The…

— Frank Herbert

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily…

— Frank Herbert

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims…

— Frank Herbert

“The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between…

— Frank Herbert

“Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't…

— Frank Herbert

“You have been educated in judgment, which is the essence of worship. Judgment always occurs in the past. It is past-thinking. Will,…

— Frank Herbert

“Come, come," the Baron said. "We don't have much time and pain is quick. Please don't bring it to this, my dear…

— Frank Herbert

The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the…

— Frank Herbert

“One of the most terrible moments in a boy’s life,” Paul said, “is when he discovers his father and mother are human…

— Frank Herbert

Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is…

— Frank Herbert

When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work…

— Frank Herbert

“There is no measuring Muad'Dib's motives by ordinary standards. In the moment of his triumph, he saw the death prepared for him,…

— Frank Herbert

“Maud’Dib could indeed, see the Future, but you must understand the limits of this power. Think of sight. You have eyes, yet…

— Frank Herbert

“A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene…

— Frank Herbert

“When a Truthsayer's gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory - in her body's memory. We look…

— Frank Herbert

“A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating. You're there…

— Frank Herbert

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

— Frank Herbert

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.

— Frank Herbert

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

— Frank Herbert

“as had happened so many times in the past, for every problem solved a new one was added. Beneath”

— Frank Herbert

“I see us giving love to each other in a time of quiet between storms. It's what we were meant to do.”

— Frank Herbert

Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.

— Frank Herbert