Brian Herbert Quotes

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

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.

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.

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

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.

Any true student must realize that History has no beginning. Regardless of where a story starts, there are always earlier heroes and earlier tragedies.

"Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the hidden assumptions of trust in the universe, those pronouncements which men have made in search of personal power . . . all mingled with shreds of enlightenment. And always the ultimate unspoken commandment is "Thou shalt not question!" But we do anyway. We break that commandment as a matter of course. The work to which we have set ourselves is the liberating of the imagination, the harnessing of imagination to humankind's deepest sense of creativity."

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.

Look inside yourself and you can see the universe.

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

We are trained to believe and not to know.

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

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

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.