Quotes by Frank Herbert

25 quotes by Frank Herbert

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Quote about tests, end

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Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

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He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Quote about destruction, thing

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How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Quote about self-control, human, man

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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a...

Quote about common sense, sense

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It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

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It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

Quote about experience, people

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Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

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

Quote about myth, progress, religion, future

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Quote about truth, being, respect

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

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Something cannot emerge from nothing.

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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

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The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same...

Quote about being

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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Quote about action, people

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The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

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The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

Quote about fortune, conflict, change

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There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

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To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

Quote about lie, light, truth

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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.

Quote about beginning, end

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