Famous Frank Herbert Quotes

  • What the eyes had seen could not be erased. – Frank Herbert

    What the eyes had seen could not be erased.– Frank Herbert

  • Mood’s a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood. – Frank Herbert

    Mood’s a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.– Frank Herbert

  • One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim. – Frank Herbert

    One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.– Frank Herbert

  • If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. – Frank Herbert

    If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.– Frank Herbert

  • The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand. – Frank Herbert

    The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand.– Frank Herbert

  • And the question of Wester religion,- Flattery said, -œis: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking? – Frank Herbert

    And the question of Wester religion,- Flattery said, -œis: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?– Frank Herbert

  • A killer with the manners of a rabbit – this is the most dangerous kind. – Frank Herbert

    A killer with the manners of a rabbit – this is the most dangerous kind.– Frank Herbert

  • You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They’ve discovered they’re a people. They’re awakening. – Frank Herbert

    You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They’ve discovered they’re a people. They’re awakening.– Frank Herbert

  • You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. – Frank Herbert

    You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.– Frank Herbert

  • Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy. – Frank Herbert

    Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.– Frank Herbert