Top 500 Frank Herbert Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Pain,” she sniffed. “A human can override any nerve in the body.”

— Frank Herbert

352. “The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less. We.”

— Frank Herbert

353. “Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.”

— Frank Herbert

354. “You know it’s love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.”

— Frank Herbert

355. “Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being.”

— Frank Herbert

356. “Isn’t it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?” Jessica.”

— Frank Herbert

357. “You see, Count, I have the Emperor’s prison planet, Salusa Secundus, to inspire me.” The.”

— Frank Herbert

358. “Gurney says there’s no artistry in killing with the tip, that it should be done with the edge.”

— Frank Herbert

359. “Chani sat back on her heels, submerging her fears in thought as she studied Paul’s face. This was a trick she had learned from watching the Reverend Mothers. Time could be made to serve the mind.”

— Frank Herbert

360. “Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work.”

— Frank Herbert

361. “It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.”

— Frank Herbert

362. “I’m the well-trained fruit tree, he thought. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me – all bearing for someone else to pick.”

— Frank Herbert

363. “Mood’s a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.”

— Frank Herbert

364. “Feints within feints within feints.”

— Frank Herbert

365. “And those who pray for dew on the deserts edge; shall bring forth the deluge.”

— Frank Herbert

366. “That path leads ever down into stagnation.”

— Frank Herbert

367. “Umman Kudu: scissors-line of jaw muscles, chin like a boot toe – a man to be trusted because the captain’s vices were known.”

— Frank Herbert

368. “And that day dawned when Arrakis lay at the hub of the universe with the wheel poised to spin.”

— Frank Herbert

369. “He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.”

— Frank Herbert

370. “I should’ve suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive.”

— Frank Herbert

371. “There’s no such thing as equal justice anywhere. It’s unsettling to a society when you try to achieve such a false balance.”

— Frank Herbert

372. “The wise man molds himself – the fool lives only to die.”

— Frank Herbert

373. “The Zensunni approach to birth,” he said, urging her even faster, “is to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension. Do not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.”

— Frank Herbert

374. “Think of all those experiences, the wisdom they’d bring. But wisdom tempers love, doesn’t it? And it puts a new shape on hate.”

— Frank Herbert

375. “No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.”

— Frank Herbert

376. “The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II.”

— Frank Herbert

377. “You should fear me, Mother. I am the Kwisatz Haderach.” Jessica.”

— Frank Herbert

378. “Reason is valuable,” he said, “only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe.” Her.”

— Frank Herbert

379. “What matters most is the search itself. This is more important than the searchers. Consciousness must dream, it must have a dreaming ground – and, dreaming, must invoke ever new dreams.”

— Frank Herbert

380. “The night is a tunnel, she thought, a hole into tomorrow...”

— Frank Herbert

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

— Frank Herbert

382. “They’ve lost the initiative, which means they’ve lost the war.” Gurney.”

— Frank Herbert

383. “Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife? –.”

— Frank Herbert

384. “Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles – the CHOAM Company.”

— Frank Herbert

385. “Anything and anyone can fail,” he said, “but brave good friends help.”

— Frank Herbert

386. “We have two chief survivors of those ancient schools: the Bene Gesserit and the Spacing Guild. The Guild, so we think, emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs another function.”

— Frank Herbert

387. “The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.”

— Frank Herbert

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

— Frank Herbert

389. “Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.”

— Frank Herbert

390. “The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions.”

— Frank Herbert

391. “That which submits rules.”

— Frank Herbert

392. “To accept a little death is worse than death itself.”

— Frank Herbert

393. “Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.”

— Frank Herbert

394. “Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.”

— Frank Herbert

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

— Frank Herbert

396. “Listening carefully to the teacher, one acquires an education.”

— Frank Herbert

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

— Frank Herbert

398. “But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.”

— Frank Herbert

399. “One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear – sharp and ready.”

— Frank Herbert

400. “The oracle cannot chance upon what it cannot understand.”

— Frank Herbert