Quotes About Wisdom

You don't see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.

Ignorance has its advantages. A universe of surprises is what I pray for!

if I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. There's no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

They who learn the lesson of self-deception too well shall perish by that deception.

He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

Duncan, have I not told you that when you think you know something, that is a most perfect barrier against learning?

To be sighted in the land of the blind carries its own perils.

The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you.

That is the beginning of knowledge—the discovery of something we do not understand.

I knew Frank Herbert for more than thirty-eight years. He was a magnificent human being, a man of great honor and distinction, and the most interesting person at any gathering, drawing listeners around him like a magnet. To say he was an intellectual giant would be an understatement, since he seemed to contain all of the knowledge of the universe in his marvelous mind. He was my father, and I loved him deeply.

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.' And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning, 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

Better the complexities one thought he knew than the complexities which defied understanding.

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

How would you like to live billions upon billions of lives?" Paul asked. "There's a fabric of legends for you! Think of all those experiences, the wisdom they'd bring. But wisdom tempers love, doesn't it? And it puts a new shape on hate. How

it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Even

Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know." New

They'll call me Muad'Dib, 'The One Who Points the Way'.

attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

Now, watch these matters closely for I wish to see this room later through your wisdom.

Forgive you?" Leto's voice was full of sweet reason. "Of course I forgive you. That is your God's function. Your crime is forgiven. However, your stupidity requires a response.

You took the universe as you found it and applied your principles where you could.

She said the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Yes. They'll call me…Muad'Dib, 'The One Who Points the Way.' Yes…that's what they'll call me." And

Reason arises from pride that a man may not know in this way when he has done evil.