Frank Herbert Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

  Frank Herbert

  Belief, Dangerous, Knowledge Is Dangerous

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.26, Penguin

• The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.

  Frank Herbert

  Strong, Moving, Greatness

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.116, Penguin

• This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here—the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos.

  Frank Herbert

  Beautiful, Order, Imagination

  "Heretics of Dune. Chapter: The Atreides Manifesto, Bene Gesserit Archives". Book by Frank Herbert, 1984.

• If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Belief, Share

• Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

  Frank Herbert

  Resistance, Helping, Belief

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.308, Penguin

• If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Order, Filters

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.119, Penguin

• Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

  Frank Herbert

  Mind, Belief, Failing

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.141, Penguin

• The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.

  Frank Herbert

  Belief, Shakes, Supreme

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.55, Penguin

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