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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motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

Frank Herbert

There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time.

Frank Herbert

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

Frank Herbert

Then are there no rules at all, Lord?” Moneo's voice conveyed a faint hint of hysteria. Leto smiled to ease the man's tensions. “Perhaps one. Short–term decisions tend to fail in the long–term.

Frank Herbert

Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?

Frank Herbert

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Frank Herbert

There will be sadness," Alia intoned. "I remind you that all things are but beginning, forever beginning. Worlds wait to be conquered. Some within the sound of my voice will attain exalted destinies. You will sneer at the past, forgetting what I tell...

Frank Herbert

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.

Frank Herbert

Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

Frank Herbert

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-- they cannot work and their civilization collapses

Frank Herbert

There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?

Frank Herbert

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

Frank Herbert

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Frank Herbert

We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.

Frank Herbert

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

Frank Herbert

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Frank Herbert

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show its...

Frank Herbert

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

Frank Herbert

Life isn't a problem to be solved. But a reality to be experienced.

Frank Herbert

But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.

Frank Herbert

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

Frank Herbert

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