Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert
Frank Patrick Herbert, Jr.was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant and lecturer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 October 1920
CityTacoma, WA
CountryUnited States of America
people reason knows
Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!
exercise past fit
Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.
men decision he-man
The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions.
thinking speak diplomacy
Often I must Speak otherwise than I Think. This is Called Diplomacy.
may tasks endure
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.
art candid concealing
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
thinking perfect you-think-you-know
When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.
men tasks way
All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
men tasks events
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
men cells giving
There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it’s almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed…These things are so ancient within us…that they’re ground into each separate cell of our bodies…It’s as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking.