it’s a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to s… - Frank Herbert

When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.

But the test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does.

How the mind gears itself for its environment, she thought. And she recalled a Bene Gesserit axiom: “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.

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.