Frank Herbert Quotes

๐Ÿ’ฌ Quotes ๐Ÿ“š Quote Topics โœ’๏ธ Quotes' Authors ๐Ÿ“… Daily Dose of Quotes

I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?

Frank Herbert

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

Frank Herbert

Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.

Frank Herbert

What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.

Frank Herbert

The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power structures and these power structures tend to be taken over by people who are corruptible. I don't think that the old saw about 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' is accurate: I think power attracts the corruptible.

Frank Herbert

The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.

Frank Herbert

Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.

Frank Herbert

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.

Frank Herbert

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.

Frank Herbert

Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.

Frank Herbert

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Frank Herbert

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

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.

Frank Herbert

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

Frank Herbert

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

Frank Herbert

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

Frank Herbert

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

Frank Herbert

Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. The least favourable condition controls the rate of growth."

Frank Herbert

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Frank Herbert

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he or she is in. That person must reflect what is projected upon him or her.

Frank Herbert

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

Frank Herbert

Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy

Frank Herbert

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

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

Frank Herbert

The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

Frank Herbert

Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

Frank Herbert

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

Frank Herbert

My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands.

Frank Herbert

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

Frank Herbert

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

Frank Herbert

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

Frank Herbert

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

Frank Herbert

You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

Frank Herbert

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.

Frank Herbert

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

Frank Herbert

I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To them I make my vow: I will be resolute and make an art of government; I will balance my inherited past and become a perfect storehouse of my relic memories. And I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist.

Frank Herbert

Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.

Frank Herbert

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

Frank Herbert

Madness in method, that's genius

Frank Herbert

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

Frank Herbert

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

Frank Herbert

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

Frank Herbert

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.

Frank Herbert

A voice hissed: "He sheds tears!" It was taken around the ring "Usal gives moisture to the dead!" He felt fingers touch his damp cheek, heard the awed whispers.

Frank Herbert

FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.

Frank Herbert

Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

Frank Herbert

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Frank Herbert

What does a mirror look at?

Frank Herbert
ยซ PrevPage 2Next ยป
HomeX
๐Ÿ˜ All
๐Ÿ˜œ Quizzesโ–ผ
โ“ One Question Quiz
๐ŸŽฌ TV and Movies
๐ŸŽฎ Video Games
๐Ÿคฉ Personality
๐Ÿ’š Relationship
๐Ÿ”ฎ Zodiac
๐Ÿ‘ป Supernatural
โš–๏ธ Would You Rather
๐Ÿพ Animals
โœจ Lifestyle
๐Ÿ‘  Fashion
๐Ÿ” Food and Beverage
๐ŸŽต Music
๐Ÿ“š Books
๐Ÿ’ฌ Comic Books
โญ Celebrities
๐Ÿ–ฅ Technology
๐ŸŽ“ Trivia Quizzesโ–ผ
๐Ÿซ Back to School
๐ŸŽฎ Video Games
๐ŸŽฌ TV and Movies
๐ŸŒŽ Geography
๐ŸŽต Music
๐Ÿฟ Pop Culture
๐Ÿพ Animals
โญ Celebrities
๐Ÿ” Food and Beverage
โœจ Lifestyle
๐Ÿ–ฅ Technology
๐Ÿ”ค Word Questsโ–ผ
๐ŸŽฌ TV and Movies
๐ŸŽฎ Video Games
๐Ÿฟ Pop Culture
๐Ÿซ Back to School
๐Ÿ‘  Fashion
โญ Celebrities
๐Ÿ“š Books
๐Ÿพ Animals
๐Ÿ‘ป Supernatural
๐ŸŒŽ Geography
โœจ Lifestyle
๐Ÿ” Food and Beverage
๐ŸŽต Music
๐Ÿงท Pair itโ–ผ
๐Ÿ“œ Articlesโ–ผ
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ The Mystic Realm
๐Ÿงฌ Curious Minds Only
๐Ÿ’š Relationship
๐Ÿ›ค๏ธ The Decision Mirror
๐ŸŽฌ TV and Movies
๐Ÿค— Feel-Good Factory
๐Ÿ”ฎ Astrology
โœ๏ธ Echoes of Imagination
๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ Timeless Etiquette Essentials
๐Ÿ‘ป Supernatural
๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿณ The Rogue Chef
๐Ÿ” Food and Beverage
๐Ÿคญ Gigglesโ–ผ
๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Daily Dose of Giggles
๐ŸŽฒ Pick a Giggle
๐Ÿ’ฌ Quotesโ–ผ
๐Ÿ“š Quote Topics
โœ’๏ธ Quotes' Authors
๐Ÿ“… Daily Dose of Quotes
โ–ถ Videoโ–ผ
๐ŸŽฎ Video Games
๐Ÿฟ Pop Culture
๐Ÿซ Back to School
๐ŸŽฌ TV and Movies
๐ŸŽต Music
๐Ÿ” Food and Beverage
๐ŸŒŽ Geography
๐Ÿ’คDream Interpretation
 
Our Socials
Top Picks
Test Your Movie Music IQ! Who Composed These Action Scores? Would You Rather: Sheldon Cooperโ€™s Most Mind-Boggling Decisions in 'The Big Bang Theory' Vegetarian Delight with a Kick: Black Bean and Cornbread Burgers with Strawberry Chipotle Sauce Lucky Charms or Healing Crystals? Ancient Beliefs About the Power of Gemstones Do You Matter More Than You Think? 7 Signs the World Needs You
Links
Privacy Terms Disclaimer Cookies Contact Us

More from Our Family

Nasame.com / BelowClouds.com

LifeShouts.com ยฉ 2020

The content of LifeShouts.com is protected by the Copyright and Related Rights Act. No part of it may be used, reproduced, recorded or transmitted in any form without the written consent of the owners.