970 Quotes by Frank Herbert

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.

We can say that Maud'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.

Silence is often the best thing to say.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.' - from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

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?

Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.