Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert
Frank Patrick Herbert, Jr.was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant and lecturer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 October 1920
CityTacoma, WA
CountryUnited States of America
tree feelings fruit
I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me
art memories winter
I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To them I make my vow: I will be resolute and make an art of government; I will balance my inherited past and become a perfect storehouse of my relic memories. And I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist.
truth knowing light
. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
mistake data entrepreneur
Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible) choices are not known, Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.
mistake data entrepreneur
Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.
quality dignity breathe
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
greatness civilization quality
Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and their civilization collapses.
sleepers
the sleeper must awaken
way problem problem-solving
Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.
eye saws matter
The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw.
entertainment journalism entertainment-business
Journalism is the entertainment business.
writing
Money to a writer is time to write.
Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?
giving lamps give-me
Give me a lamp so I can find the day.