Frank Herbert: Trending quotes (page 4)

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

“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.”

“If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!”

“Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.”

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

“What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.”

“The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.”

“Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!”

“What does a mirror look at?”

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

“Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.”

“Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.”

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

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

“When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.”

“To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen.
-The Amtal Rule”

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

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

“Here lies a toppled god.
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.”