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Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.
— Brian Herbert
Think of what this planet has done to us. Dune took my Duke and my son and shattered all our hopes and dreams as a family. It swallows people.
— Brian Herbert
Love is the highest achievement to which any human may aspire. It is an emotion that encompasses the full depth of heart, mind, and soul.
— Brian Herbert
All persons are contained within a single individual, just as all time is in a moment, and the entire universe is in a grain of sand.
— Brian Herbert
Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.
— Brian Herbert
Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.
— Brian Herbert
Seeker, who says religion is the way to God?
— Brian Herbert
Not all accidents are what they seem. Victims do no even know why they have been chosen.
— Brian Herbert
I can envision calculations all the way to infinity," she said, as if in a trance. "I don't have to write them down.
— Brian Herbert
The only guarantee in life is death, and the only guarantee in death is its shocking unpredictability.
— Brian Herbert
My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.
— Brian Herbert
A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive. - FRANK HERBERT, unpublished notes
— Brian Herbert
Wounds make better lessons than lectures.
— Brian Herbert
Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.
— Brian Herbert
It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.
— Brian Herbert
Looking closely at de Vries, he added, 'You are a very ugly man, Piter. Even with my disease, I'm still prettier than you.
— Brian Herbert
Tell her nothing is impossible. Tell her that love is what separates humans from other living creatures, not hatred. Not violence -
— Brian Herbert
The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown. — Brian Herbert
Who is truly anyone? Every person is illusion to some degree.
— Brian Herbert
There's so much overlapping in science fiction.
— Brian Herbert
Among my father's most important messages were that governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions.
— Brian Herbert
Once you have explored a fear, it becomes less terrifying. Part of courage comes from extending our knowledge.
— Brian Herbert
Erasmus was like Serena in a sense: he frequently needed to prune and weed the human race in his own garden.
— Brian Herbert
As a human being, I was born on the brink of personal destruction, and I have spent my life dancing along the edge of that cliff.
— Brian Herbert
Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.
— Brian Herbert
I'll keep writing 'Dune' books as long as my mother's spirit continues to support the project.
— Brian Herbert
Weapons come in an infinite variety of shapes and designs. Some look exactly like people.
— Brian Herbert
Seurat's flowmetal face gleamed in the lights from his update ship's cockpit. Then I regret having been such an excellent teacher.
— Brian Herbert
Dhartha's deep blue eyes flashed. "This is not about pride, Aurelius Venport. This is only about killing a pest of the desert.
— Brian Herbert
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.
— Brian Herbert
Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.
— Brian Herbert
The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.
— Brian Herbert
We are trained to believe and not to know.
— Brian Herbert
The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice. — Brian Herbert
No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls. — Brian Herbert
I have seen into the heart of the universe.
— Brian Herbert
The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what they think it is. — Brian Herbert
Politics is a tangled web, an intricate labyrinth, an ever-shifting kaleidoscopic pattern. And it is not pretty.
— Brian Herbert
An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.
— Brian Herbert
There is no reality only our own order imposed on everything. — Brian Herbert
Brilliant, Piter! I'm glad I didn't execute you all those times when you were so annoying.''So am I,' de Vries said. — Brian Herbert
If we give up our humanity to fight the machines, Zufa, then Omnius has already won!
— Brian Herbert
You carve wounds upon my flesh and write there in salt!
— Brian Herbert
We moved 23 times before I was out of high school!
— Brian Herbert
Look inside yourself and you can see the universe.
— Brian Herbert
Music should make the spirit soar, take the breath away, touch the soul. Your work was just ... pleasant tones, adequately performed.
— Brian Herbert
I didn't actually get along with my dad when I was growing up, so by the time I was in my 20s, I didn't think I was going to be a writer.
— Brian Herbert
A winner has more skills than a loser," Vor said, "no matter how you define the competition.
— Brian Herbert
The more tightly packed the group, the greater the need for strict social ranks and orders.
— Brian Herbert
Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius.
— Brian Herbert
Discovery is dangerous ... but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live. — Brian Herbert
The narrow mind erects stubborn barriers," her mother had once told her. "But against those barriers, words are formidable weapons.
— Brian Herbert
Even victories take their toll on a man.
— Brian Herbert
The desert sorted the faithful from imposters, but the city did not seem to know the difference, and actually rewarded the impure.
— Brian Herbert
Jool Noret, we admire you. You are the scourge of Omnius." "I am merely doing my job.
— Brian Herbert
The Baron felt cold inside, certain that even the most careful manipulations would not stand up to the close scrutiny of these demonic auditors.
— Brian Herbert
There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.
— Brian Herbert
