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Quotes About Wisdom

Listening carefully to the teacher, one acquires an education.
~ Frank Herbert
and the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve but a reality to experience.
~ Frank Herbert
The oracle cannot chance upon what it cannot understand.
~ Frank Herbert
Reason is valuable," he said, "only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe." Her
~ Frank Herbert
Cehalet ile bilginin, vahÅŸilik ve kültürün kesiÅŸmesi... ölülerimize gösterdiÄŸimiz sayg?yla baÅŸlar.
~ Frank Herbert
when you think you know something, that is a most perfect barrier against learning?
~ Frank Herbert
Alzó cuatro nudosos dedos—: la erudición de los sabios, la justicia de los poderosos, las plegarias de los justos y el coraje de los valerosos. Pero eso no vale nada... —Cerró los dedos en un puño— sin un gobernante que conozca el arte de gobernar.
~ Frank Herbert
Uno no debe arriesgarlo todo por liquidar prematuramente una cuenta
~ Frank Herbert
Our gods should mature as we mature.
~ Frank Herbert
For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.
~ Frank Herbert
Think you carefully on this Bene Gesserit proverb and perhaps you will see: "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
~ Frank Herbert
Te lupti cu vise? Te certi cu umbre? Te misti ca intr-un somn adanc? Timpul a trecut. Viata ti s-a luat. Te-ai amarat cu fleacuri. Esti victima nesabuintei tale.
~ Frank Herbert
el precio que pagamos era el precio que los hombres han pagado siempre por obtener un paraíso en sus vidas: nos ablandamos, perdimos nuestro temple. · —De Conversaciones con Muad'Dib, por la princesa Irulan
~ Frank Herbert
the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave.
~ Frank Herbert
A wise man depends upon his friends for information and upon himself for decisions
~ Frank Herbert
Doesn't take much sense to know you shouldn't live in a place if you have to carry a gun.
~ Frank Herbert
Existe un límite a la fuerza que hasta los más poderosos pueden aplicar sin destruirse a sí mismos. Calcular dicho límite es el auténtico arte de gobernar. El mal uso del poder es un pecado fatal. La ley no puede ser un instrumento de venganza, nunca un rehén y tampoco un refugio contra los mártires que ha creado. Uno no puede amenazar a un individuo y librarse de las consecuencias. Muad'Dib sobre la ley, Comentarios de Stilgar
~ Frank Herbert
She asked me to tell her what it is to rule," Paul said. "And I said that one commands. And she said I had some unlearning to do.
~ Frank Herbert
A world is supported by four things…." She held up four big-knuckled fingers. "…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing…." She closed her fingers into a fist. "…without
~ Frank Herbert
ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!
~ Frank Herbert
But he felt nothing except: Here's an important fact. It was one with all the other facts.
~ Frank Herbert
The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.
~ Frank Herbert
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present, and a waste to live in the future.
~ Frank Herbert
Nedostatak znanja priziva najve?e strahove.
~ Frank Herbert