We are trained to believe and not to know.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
Careful preparations and defenses can never guarantee victory. However, ignoring these precautions is an almost certain recipe for defeat.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
Some lies are easier to believe than the truth.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
Time depends on the position of the observer and the direction in which he looks.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
Rules are for old men who prefer to walk in the wheel ruts of history.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose, while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
When we try to conceal our innermost drives, our entire being screams betrayal.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
Look inside yourself and you can see the universe.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
Learn from the past--don't wear it like a yoke around your neck.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
In the desert, the line between life and death is sharp and quick.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
Once you have explored a fear, it becomes less terrifying. Part of courage comes from extending our knowledge.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
Life is a banquet of unexpected flavors. Sometimes you like the taste, sometimes you don't.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
When the shepherd is a wolf, the flock becomes only so much meat.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
A man cannot drink from a mirage, but he can drown in it.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
True art required the right amount of uncertainty, just as gourmet cooking needed the proper spices and flavors.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
Creativity follows its own rules.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
Laws are dangerous to everyone, innocent and guilty alike, because they have no human understanding in and of themselves. They must be interpreted.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
The darkness of humanity's past threatens to eclipse the brightness of its future.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
We could be dreaming all the time, but we do not perceive those dreams while we are awake because consciousness (like the sun obscuring stars during the day) is much too brilliant to allow the unconscious content so much definition.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
Fear invites aggression--do not show it to a predator.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
Science: The creaction of dilemmas by the solution of mysteries.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
It is not easy for some men to know they have done evil, for reasoning and honor are often clouded by pride.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
Most traditional governments divide people, setting them against each other to weaken the society and make it governable.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
An individual takes on significance only in his relationship to society as a whole.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
Any man who asks for greater authority does not deserve to have it.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
The future? I hate it because I will not be there.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
The natural destiny of power is fragmentation.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
There are no facts -- only observational postulates in an endlessly regenerative hodgepodge of predictions.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
Technology should have freed mankind from the burdens of life. Instead, it created new ones.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
The answer is a mirror of the question.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.
BRIAN HERBERT, House Atreides
A secret is most valuable when it remains a secret.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
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