Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

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.

When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was concerned only with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I had never before experienced.

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

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.