Quotes related to Proverbs 3:5
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
Frank Herbert warned young people not to trust government, telling them that the American founding fathers had understood this and had attempted to establish safeguards in the Constitution.
— Frank Herbert
The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions. The uncertain rabbits had to be exposed, made to run for their burrows. Else how could you control them and breed them?
— Frank Herbert
they were non-thinkers, attaching themselves to any fancied power for the identity which this gave them. Without a reflection from her they were empty. Thus, they were dangerous.
— Frank Herbert
Your projections of logic onto all affairs is unnatural, but suffered to continue for its usefulness.
— Frank Herbert
There are some forms of insanity which, driven to an ultimate expression, can become the new models of sanity. — BuSab Manual
— Frank Herbert
The concept of progress act as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
— Frank Herbert
You had to pick and choose, discreetly animating the past. And was that not the purpose of consciousness, the very essence of being alive? Select from the past and match it against the present: Learn consequences.
— Frank Herbert
Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.
— Frank Herbert
a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines.
— Frank Herbert
What better way to destroy me than to sow suspicion of the woman I love?
— Frank Herbert
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.' That seemed to satisfy her.
— Frank Herbert