Quotes about Knowledge
attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
- Frank Herbert
The mystery of consciousness? Erroneous data—significant results.
- Frank Herbert
To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen.
- Frank Herbert
The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture—it begins in the dignity with which we treat our dead.
- Frank Herbert
Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax.
- Frank Herbert
The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known." There
- Frank Herbert
The oracle cannot chance upon what it cannot understand.
- Frank Herbert
But he felt nothing except: Here's an important fact. It was one with all the other facts.
- Frank Herbert
Muad'Dib gave us a particular kind of knowledge about prophetic insight, about the behaviour which surrounds such insight and its influence upon events whcih are seen to be on line. (That is, events which are set to occur in a related system which the prophet reveals and interprets.) As has been noted elsewhere, such insight operates as a peculiar trap for the prophet himself. He can become the victim of what he knows — which is a relatively common human failing.
- Frank Herbert
the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
- Frank Herbert
It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
- Frank Herbert
And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
- Frank Herbert