Brian Herbert Quotes

Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.

Just repeating a statement often and with great vehemence does not make it a fact, and no amount of repetition can make a rational person believe it.

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

Every hammer has the innate capacity to strike a nail. Every human mind has the innate capacity for greatness. But not every hammer is properly used, nor is every human mind.

Even the poorest House can be rich in loyalty. Allegiance that must be purchased by bribes or wages is hollow and flawed, and could break at the worst possible moment. Allegiance that comes from the heart, though, is stronger than adamantium and more valuable than purest melange.

"Some say it is better to rule in hell than serve in heaven. That is a defeatist attitude. I intend to rule everywhere, not just in Hell."
- General Agamemnon
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If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no
matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.

Who is truly anyone? Every person is illusion to some degree.

The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what
they think it is.

No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are
all Face Dancers in our souls.

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

We are trained to believe and not to know.

When we try to conceal our innermost drives, our entire being screams betrayal.

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

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