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Results of search for Author: Frank Herbert - Page 2 of 4 Showing results 11 to 20 of 34 total quotations found.
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Results from Classic Quotes:

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune (First Law of Mentat)
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)
Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
A human being can stand any amount of pain.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune

Results from Cole's Quotables:

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), The Dosadi Experiment
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers. No servant or disciple can dress the wound. You dress it yourself or continue bleeding for all to see.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)

Results from Internet Collections: 20th Century Quotations:

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)

Results from Contributed Quotations:

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva

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