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Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 4

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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.

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.

Believe, People, Difficult

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

Research, Produce, Organized

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.425, Penguin

What you cannot control, you must accept.

Accepting

Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.78, Penguin

There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.

Secret, Balance, Wave

I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability.

Believe, Opportunity, Justice

"Dune Genesis" by Frank Herbert , Omni, Vol. 2, No. 2 (p. 72), July 1980.

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

Creativity, Men, Creating

"Shoptalk: learning to write with writers". Book by Donald Morison Murray, 1990.

The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

Peers, Prophet, Curtains

Frank Herbert (1984). “God Emperor of Dune”

Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.

Restoration, Life Is, Mask

Frank Herbert (1984). “Children of Dune”, Berkley

The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.

Revenge, Tables, Violence

Frank Herbert (1986). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, Berkley Trade

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

Powerful, Men

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.12, Penguin

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Adventure, Errors, Atheism

Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.275, Penguin

Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.

Experts, Useless, Chaos

Frank Herbert (1984). “Children of Dune”, Berkley

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Hard Times, Psychics, People

"Dune".

Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

Survival, Needs, Playing Chess

Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

Past, Luck, Survival

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

Technology, People, Risk

Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.84, Penguin

You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.

Grants, Universe

"Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.

Believe, Belief, Share

The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.

Stress, Thinking, Training

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.230, Penguin

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.

Wise, Men, May

Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.99, Penguin

Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

Mind, Belief, Failing

Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.141, Penguin

Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.

Mankind, Discontent

Caution is the path to mediocrity.

Mediocrity, Path, Caution

Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.372, Penguin

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

Law, Drug Prohibition

Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.113, Penguin

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?

Real, Law, Enforcement

Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.137, Penguin

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