Quotes by Frank Herbert

About Frank Herbert:

Frank Patrick Herbert, Jr. was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant and lecturer.
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Schools were started to train human talents... The Guild... emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs... politics. The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the need of a thread of continuity in human affairs. T...

Frank Herbert

Humans are almost always lonely.

Frank Herbert

Piter: Ah-ah, Baron! Is it not regrettable you were unable to devise this delicious scheme by yourself? Baron: Someday I will have you strangled, Piter. Piter: Of a certainty, Baron. Enfin! But a kind act is never lost, eh? Baron: Have you been chewi...

Frank Herbert

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

Frank Herbert

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

Frank Herbert

Conducătorul este unul dintre factorii care creează deosebirea dintre o gloată și un popor. Conducătorul trebuie să mențină nivelul indivizilor. Prea puțini indivizi... și un popor degenerează în gloată.

Frank Herbert

Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

Frank Herbert

A world is supported by four things....the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayer of righteous and the valour of the brave. But all this are nothing...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.

Frank Herbert

He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men’s lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat.

Frank Herbert

It was another of the essential ingredients that she felt her son needed: people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. They could be wielded like a sword to win back Paul’s place for him.

Frank Herbert

What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.

Frank Herbert

Apropierea unui lucru dorit înclină la prea multă îngăduință.

Frank Herbert

Rostit ori nerostit, un gând e o realitate și are putere.

Frank Herbert

My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.

Frank Herbert

Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way - in the minutiae of observation.

Frank Herbert

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

Frank Herbert

Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things..." she held up four big-knuckled fingers. "...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these things ar...

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In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

Frank Herbert

My father rules an entire planet." "He's losing it.

Frank Herbert

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Frank Herbert

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

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Author Bio

  • NameFrank Herbert
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • AliasesFranklin Patrick Herbert, Jr.
  • BornOctober 8, 1920
  • DiedFebruary 11, 1986
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Photographer
  • WorksDune
  • AwardsNebula Award