Frank Herbert quotes - page 2

Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!" (Frank Herbert)
Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. View quote
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Survival is the ability to swim in strange water. View quote
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When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom. View quote
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Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face. View quote
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It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. View quote
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Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations of archetypes, myth structures and self-understanding. It may be that the primary attraction of science fiction is that it helps us understand what it means to be human. View quote
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Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. View quote
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Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new. View quote
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Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking. View quote
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Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known. (Frank Herbert)
He who controls the spice controls the universe. View quote
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Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die. View quote
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There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh. View quote
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What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises-no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting. View quote
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To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror. View quote
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A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. View quote
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The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. View quote
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Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name. View quote
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Mankind has only one science... its the science of discontent. View quote
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Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you! (Frank Herbert)
When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage. View quote
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When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense. View quote
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Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives. View quote
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The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it. View quote
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