Frank Herbert Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

  Frank Herbert

  Father, Men, Flesh

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.96, Penguin

• Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

  Frank Herbert

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Frank Herbert (2010). “Dune”, p.327, Hachette UK

• The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.

  Frank Herbert

  Children, Father, Believe

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.390, Penguin

• My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.

  Frank Herbert

  Father, Thinking, Profound

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.185, Penguin

• Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

  Frank Herbert

  Father, Errors, Principles

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.243, Penguin

• What is the son but an extension of the father?

  Frank Herbert

  Father, Son, Extensions

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.43, Penguin

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