Brian Herbert Quotes

The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.

Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.

No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.

In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.

Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.

The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.

Wounds make better lessons than lectures.

Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius.

The more tightly packed the group, the greater the need for strict social ranks and orders.

Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.

Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.

A winner has more skills than a loser, " Vor said, "no matter how you define the competition.

In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.

With a smile of grim satisfaction, he bellowed his call. And the rebels surged forward in an act that would be remembered for ten thousand years.

No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.

Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.

The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what they think it is.

Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.