970 Quotes by Frank Herbert

How easy it was to mistake clear reasoning for correct reasoning!

It’s easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.

Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.” He glanced at the charts on the table. “And Arrakis is just another place.

Pain,” she sniffed. “A human can override any nerve in the body.

A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called “spannungsbogen” – which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

To determine if you’re human. Be silent.

You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade’s edge and its tip.

You know it’s love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.