When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

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

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.