Frank Herbert Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”

“The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.”

“Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?”

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.”

“If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.”