Brian Herbert famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Teaching #School #Acceptance
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.
-- Brian Herbert

#Interesting #World #Study
The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.
-- Brian Herbert

#Skills #Choices #Capacity
Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.
-- Brian Herbert

#Simplicity #Difficult
The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.
-- Brian Herbert

#Innovation #Firsts #Steps
Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.
-- Brian Herbert

#Unions #Degrees #Different
No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.
-- Brian Herbert

#Heart #Dancer #Soul
Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.
-- Brian Herbert

#Fear #Predator #Aggression
In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources.
-- Brian Herbert

#Hero #Battle #Heat
Wounds make better lessons than lectures.
-- Brian Herbert

#Hurt #Lessons #Lectures
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.
-- Brian Herbert

#Mistake #Past #Principles
Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.
-- Brian Herbert

#Mean #Science #Reality
Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose, while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them.
-- Brian Herbert

#Heart #Men #Shackles
Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.
-- Brian Herbert

#Desire #Canvas #Uncertain
Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.
-- Brian Herbert

#Way #Pressure
How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.
-- Brian Herbert

#Children #Men #Measure Of A Man
Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.
-- Brian Herbert

#Important #Tests #Life Is
Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.
-- Brian Herbert

#Flower #Opportunity #Tiny
The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.
-- Brian Herbert

#Eye #Opportunity #Men
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.
-- Brian Herbert

#Believe #Mind #Want

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