Top 500 Frank Herbert Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Words can carry any burden we wish. All that’s required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.”

— Frank Herbert

452. “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

453. “Moral decisions are always easy to recognize,” Odrade said. “They are where you abandon self-interest.”

— Frank Herbert

454. “You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade’s edge and its tip.”

— Frank Herbert

455. “Prophets have a way of dying by violence.”

— Frank Herbert

456. “Life is not an option, it is a gift. Death is the option.”

— Frank Herbert

457. “Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.”

— Frank Herbert

458. “You never talk of likelihoods on Arrakis. You speak only of possibilities.”

— Frank Herbert

459. “Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.”

— Frank Herbert

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

— Frank Herbert

461. “Your own emperor bestowed Arrakis on House Atreides. I am House Atreides.” The.”

— Frank Herbert

462. “Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?”

— Frank Herbert

463. “Stilgar put a hand on Idaho’s shoulder. “All men are interlopers, old friend.”

— Frank Herbert

464. “The man without emotions is the one to fear.”

— Frank Herbert

465. “One who rules assumes irrevocable responsibility for the ruled. You are a husbandman. This demands, at times, a selfless act of love which may only be amusing to those you rule.”

— Frank Herbert

466. “Culture! They dispense culture the better to rule. Beauty! They promote the beauty which enslaves. They create a literate ignorance – easiest thing of all. They leave nothing to chance. Chains! Everything they do forges chains, enslaves. But slaves always revolt.”

— Frank Herbert

467. “Knowing was a barrier which prevented learning.”

— Frank Herbert

468. “A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people.”

— Frank Herbert

469. “His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.”

— Frank Herbert

470. “Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.”

— Frank Herbert

471. “Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name?”

— Frank Herbert

472. “Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity.” Odrade explaining. “The young must be damped down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don’t spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.”

— Frank Herbert

473. “I’ve heard enough sad histories of gods and messiahs. Why should I need special powers to forecast ruins of my own like all those others?”

— Frank Herbert

474. “The most perfect barrier to learning a thing is the belief that is it already known.”

— Frank Herbert

475. “As with all priests, you learned early to call the truth heresy.”

— Frank Herbert

476. “Your habits always come hunting after you. The self you construct will haunt you. A ghost wandering around in search of your body, eager to possess you. We are addicted to the self we construct.”

— Frank Herbert

477. “Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.”

— Frank Herbert

478. “Don’t sit with your back to any doors.”

— Frank Herbert

479. “I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.”

— Frank Herbert

480. “Each man is a little war.”

— Frank Herbert

481. “All rebellions are ordinary and an ultimate bore. They are copied out of the same pattern, one much like another. The driving force is adrenalin addiction and the desire to gain personal power. All rebels are closet aristocrats. That’s why I can convert them so easily. Why.”

— Frank Herbert

482. “To be sighted in the land of the blind carries its own perils.”

— Frank Herbert

483. “I’m the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me.”

— Frank Herbert

484. “She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.”

— Frank Herbert

485. “As you well know, the secret of community lies in suppression of the incompatible.”

— Frank Herbert

486. “This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow’s life. I live now for my young Duke and the daughter yet to be. She.”

— Frank Herbert

487. “Most humans are not strong enough to find freedom within.” Sister.”

— Frank Herbert

488. “Then she said a good ruler has to learn his world’s language, that it’s different for every world. And I thought she meant they didn’t speak Galach on Arrakis, but she said that wasn’t it at all. She said she meant the language of the rocks and growing things, the language you don’t hear just with your ears.”

— Frank Herbert

489. “Is God troubled?” And her companion replied: “The sins of this universe would trouble anyone.”

— Frank Herbert

490. “Is evolution just another name for God?”

— Frank Herbert

491. “Give me a lamp so I can find the day.”

— Frank Herbert

492. “I told my nephew of the great esteem our Emperor holds for you, Count Fenring,” the Baron said. And he thought: Mark him well, Feyd! A killer with the manners of a rabbit – this is the most dangerous kind.”

— Frank Herbert

493. “A single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us “The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.”

— Frank Herbert

494. “Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.”

— Frank Herbert

495. “We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.”

— Frank Herbert

496. “To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity’s whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.”

— Frank Herbert

497. “In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures.”

— Frank Herbert

498. “But the tripod upon which Eternity swings is composed of flesh and thought and emotion.”

— Frank Herbert

499. “I have another kind of sight. I see another kind of terrain: the available paths. The.”

— Frank Herbert

500. “Piter spoke to Jessica. “I’d thought of binding you by a threat held over your son, but I begin to see that would not have worked. I let emotion cloud reason. Bad policy for a Mentat.” -Piter De Vries.”

— Frank Herbert