970 Quotes by Frank Herbert

Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation.

A world is supported by four things: the learning of wise, the justice of great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.

She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.

The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful,

The successful writer listens to himself.

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

I am not the kind of person I want to be.

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.