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
stress thinking training
The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.
fear fantasy-novels scary
FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.
hope ambition clouds
Hope clouds observation.
believe people difficult
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.
fear mind killers
Fear is the mind-killer.
people gentleman awakening
You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.
balance care delicate
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.
anger men angry-man
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
law drug-prohibition
Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.
water swim survival
Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.
wall wind one-day
The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.
pay violence thrive
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
purpose argument thrive
The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.
substitutes
Education is no substitute for intelligence.