Quotes by Brian Herbert

About Brian Herbert:

Brian Patrick Herbert is an American author who lives in Washington state. He is the elder son of science fiction author Frank Herbert.
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Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.

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Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.

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Address the solvable first, instructs the father by way of teaching his son crisis management. That way, he counsels, there is less distraction to tackle more daunting issues.

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It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

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In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.

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Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

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Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

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It is said that there is nothing firm, nothing balanced, nothing durable in all the universe -- that nothing remains in its original state, that each day, each hour, each moment, there is change.

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We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. A strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including our gods.

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No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.

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No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

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If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.

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The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what they think it is.

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Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.

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The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.

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The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change.

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There is no reality -- only our own order imposed on everything.

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raped reason. He implanted in the dominant schools of philosophy the attractive belief that there can be discrete separation between mind and body. This led quite naturally to corollary delusions such as the one that power can be understood without a...

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As mortal humans we are born with a death sentence anyway, so what difference does a little poison make? Why not take a chance you will survive the ordeal and make something significant of your life?..." p330

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But the Butlerians turn fear into violence and panic into a weapon. By creating imaginary problems and raising the specter of nonexistent enemies, they transform common people into a wild herd that destroys everything they do not understand.

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Author Bio

  • NameBrian Herbert
  • Descriptionauthor from the United States
  • AliasesBrian Patrick Herbert
  • BornJune 29, 1947
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist; Writer