Quotes of Frank Herbert - somelinesforyou

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

- Frank Herbert

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

- Frank Herbert

“ The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it. ”

- Frank Herbert

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

- Frank Herbert

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

- Frank Herbert

“ What do you despise? By this are you truly known. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. ”

- Frank Herbert

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

- Frank Herbert

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

- Frank Herbert

“ There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors. ”

- Frank Herbert

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

- Frank Herbert

“ Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy. Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual ”

- Frank Herbert

“ Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick. ”

- Frank Herbert

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

- 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 dreamcreatures. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. ”

- 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 dreamcreatures. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick. ”

- Frank Herbert

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

- Frank Herbert

“ My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ Education is no substitute for intelligence. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ I am not the river I am the net. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors. ”

- Frank Herbert
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