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• Education is no substitute for intelligence.

  Frank Herbert

  Substitutes

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.90, Penguin

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• Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. The young must be dampened down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.

  Frank Herbert

  Teacher, Children, Educational

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• If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Mistake, Advice

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• When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.

  Frank Herbert

  Thinking, Perfect, You Think You Know

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.203, Penguin

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• Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

  Frank Herbert

  Government, Long, Tendencies

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.255, Penguin

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• The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.

  Frank Herbert

  Important, Problem

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• Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are much easier to find and believe. If you find a truth, even a temporary one, it can demand that you make painful changes. Conceal your truths within words. Natural ambiguity will protect you then.

  Frank Herbert

  Lying, Believe, Demand

  Frank Herbert (1984). “God Emperor of Dune”

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• The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good.

  Frank Herbert

  Evil, Tests, Ultimate

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• No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

  Frank Herbert

  Truth, Self, Matter

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.96, Penguin

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• Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.

  Frank Herbert

  Self, Use, Sticks

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• Truth suffers from too much analysis.

  Frank Herbert

  Wisdom, Suffering, Analysis

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.68, Penguin

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• The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

  Frank Herbert

  Purpose, Argument, Thrive

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.68, Penguin

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• This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Men, Tools

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.216, Penguin

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• I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

  Frank Herbert

  Persistence, Simple, Thinking

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.139, Penguin

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• Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.

  Frank Herbert

  Way, Problem, Problem Solving

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.251, Penguin

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

  Frank Herbert

  Focus, Awareness, Force

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.181, Penguin

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• It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, People, Difficult

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• Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.

  Frank Herbert

  Errors, Assumption, Obsolete

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.82, Penguin

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• Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

  Frank Herbert

  Stupidity, Conformity, Remember

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.96, Penguin

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• The universe does not work by our rules

  Frank Herbert

  Doe, Universe

  Frank Herbert (1983). “Destination Void”, Berkley

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• Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

  Frank Herbert

  Kindness, Cynicism, Cruelty

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.434, Penguin

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• Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

  Frank Herbert

  Research, Produce, Organized

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.425, Penguin

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• These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness

  Frank Herbert

  Religious, Honesty, Successful

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.68, Penguin

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• The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.

  Frank Herbert

  Thinking, Secret, Answers

  "Children Of Dune: The Third Dune Novel".

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• Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

  Frank Herbert

  Faces, Face Your Fears, Climbs

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.151, Penguin

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