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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One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

Frank Herbert

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Frank Herbert

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

Frank Herbert

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Frank Herbert

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Frank Herbert

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Frank Herbert

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Frank Herbert

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

Frank Herbert

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Frank Herbert

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

Frank Herbert

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

Frank Herbert

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Frank Herbert

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

Frank Herbert

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pe...

Frank Herbert

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Frank Herbert

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Frank Herbert

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

Frank Herbert

Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are ...

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Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Frank Herbert

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.' And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning, 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

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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