106 Quotes by Brian Herbert

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.

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

Aristotle 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 applying it, or that joy is totally removable from unhappiness, that peace can exist in the total absence of war, or that life can be understood without death.—ERASMUS, Corrin Notes

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

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

Her face looked like a fruit from which all the juice had been sucked.

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

A winner has more skills than a loser," Vor said, "no matter how you define the competition.

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.