I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me - Frank Herbert

Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.