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Quotes About Mystery

Are you Lewis Carroll? Redd asked him.
~ Frank Beddor
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
~ Frank Herbert
There's a Bene Gesserit saying," she said. "You have sayings for everything!" he protested. "You'll like this one," she said. "It goes: 'Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.
~ Frank Herbert
She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.
~ Frank Herbert
There are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness.
~ Frank Herbert
The universe does not work by our rules
~ Frank Herbert
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.
~ Frank Herbert
Wild Fremen said it well: Four things cannot be hidden -- love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man striding across the open bled.
~ Frank Herbert
There's no mystery about a human life. It's not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
~ Frank Herbert
El misterio de la vida no es problema que hay que resolver, sino una realidad que hay que experimentar.
~ Frank Herbert
The universe is full of doors.
~ Frank Herbert
The abyss remains. It is pregnant with all the things yet to be. Ah, what gentle violence!
~ Frank Herbert
His thoughts were too vague to be described, but they comprehended mysterious elements.
~ Frank Herbert
You cannot fix your gaze upon it! Senses cannot record it. No words describe it. -Alia
~ Frank Herbert
What have we here—jinn or human?
~ Frank Herbert
She said the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. So I quoted the First Law of Mentat at her: 'A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
~ Frank Herbert
The Fremen have a simple, practical religion," he said. "Nothing about religion is simple.
~ Frank Herbert
That girl! She was like a touch of destiny
~ Frank Herbert
Something compelling and attractive surrounded walking anonymously at night in the streets of Arrakeen.
~ Frank Herbert
She said the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
~ Frank Herbert
off in strata of porous rock by the leathery half-plant, half-animal little makers—and
~ Frank Herbert
The Harkonnens discouraged investigation of the spice, didn't they?
~ Frank Herbert
Nepoznato se u svakom trenutku nalazi posvuda uokolo. Tu treba tražiti znanje.
~ Frank Herbert
The mystery of consciousness? Erroneous data—significant results.
~ Frank Herbert