970 Quotes by Frank Herbert

Ideas are a dime a dozen. It’s execution that counts.

One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin – only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

You shall be known among us as Usul, the base of the pillar. This is your secret name, your troop name. We of Sietch.

What matters most is the search itself. This is more important than the searchers. Consciousness must dream, it must have a dreaming ground – and, dreaming, must invoke ever new dreams.

I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity.

Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we’re compelled to face.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion.

This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination. You’ve learned only a limited way of looking at the universe. Now you must make the universe your own creation.

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that’s required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.