Top 15 Brian Herbert Quotes

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

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

My Sihaya,’ he said as he held her, ‘I have loved you for five thousand years.

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

"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."

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

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

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.

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

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

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

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

Look inside yourself and you can see the universe.

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.