Frank Herbert Quotes

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows. To begin your study of the life of Maud'Dib, then, take care that...

A good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented.

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.

All around the Lady Jessica—piled in corners of the Arrakeen great hall, mounded in the open spaces—stood the packaged freight of their lives: boxes, trunks, cartons, cases—some partly unpacked.

All rebels are closet aristocrats. That’s why I can convert them so easily.

Ambitions tend to Remain undisturbed by Realities.

And the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life -we went soft, we lost our edge.

And the question of Wester religion, Flattery said, is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?

Any path which narrows future possibilities may become a lethal trap. Humans are not threading their way through a maze; they scan a vast horizon filled with unique opportunities.

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.

At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.

Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are much easier to find and believe. If you find a truth, even a tempora...

But attack can take strange forms. And you will remember the tooth. The tooth. Duke Leto Atreides. You will remember the tooth. -Dr.Yueh

Canterbury was gone from the memories of men, as was the planet which had known it.

Chaos is no surprise. It has predictable characteristics. For one thing, it carries away order and strengthens the forces at the extremes.

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.

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and pl...

Do as she says, you wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd!

Do not count a human dead until you’ve seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.

Don't sit with your back to any doors.