Brian Herbert quotes

The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.
- 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

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

It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.
- Brian Herbert

Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.
- 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

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.
- Brian Herbert

The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change.
- Brian Herbert

The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.
- 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

Wounds make better lessons than lectures.
- Brian Herbert

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.
- Brian Herbert

Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.
- Brian Herbert

Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.
- Brian Herbert

Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius.
- Brian Herbert

Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose, while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them.
- Brian Herbert

Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.
- Brian Herbert

In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources.
- Brian Herbert

Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.
- Brian Herbert

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.
- Brian Herbert

The more tightly packed the group, the greater the need for strict social ranks and orders.
- 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

Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.
- Brian Herbert

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.
- Brian Herbert