Quotes about Growth
He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. 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
The abyss remains. It is pregnant with all the things yet to be. Ah, what gentle violence!
— Frank Herbert
At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.
— Frank Herbert
Remember your philosopher's doubts, Miles. Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.
— Frank Herbert
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
— Frank Herbert
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.
— Frank Herbert
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
— Frank Herbert
Paul took a place in the line behind Chani. He had put down the black feeling at being caught by the girl. In his mind now was the memory called up by his mother's barked reminder: "My son's been tested with the gom jabbar!" He found that his hand tingled with remembered pain.
— 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
Woman is thy field; go then to thy field and till it.
— Frank Herbert
One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin — only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.
— 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