"Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that … - Frank Herbert

He 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.

The past may show the right way to behave if you live in the past, Stil, but circumstances change.

"We shouldn’t have tried to create new symbols,” he said. We should’ve realized we weren’t supposed to introduce uncertainties into accepted belief, that we weren’t supposed to stir up curiosity about God. We are daily confronted by the terrifying instability of all things human, yet we permit our religions to grow more rigid and controlled, more conforming and oppressive. What is this shadow across the highway of Divine Command? It is a warning that institutions endure, that symbols endure when their meaning is lost, that there is no summa of all attainable knowledge.

"Admission" of C.E.T. Chairman Toure Bomoko, in "Appendix II: The Religion of Dune