Wisdom Quote by Frank Herbert — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.”

“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”

“I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day.”

“The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead”

“My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence against the chosen god, telling the immortal what to do: Give me a miracle, God, or I won't believe in you!”

“My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.”

“Act as if it was, and it will be.”

“Goodness and evil know no gender; virtue and vice reside in the mind, not in one’s sex.”

“Avoid selling to dumb customers, there aren't enough left!”

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

“Compassion is love that rolls up its sleeves, and gets to work.”

“To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.”