Quotes about Trust
What terrible things we do to those we love!
— Frank Herbert
We should grant power over our affairs only to those reluctant to hold it, and only under conditions that increase that reluctance.
— Frank Herbert
The problem with leadership is that leaders are human beings. And when they make mistakes, their mistakes are amplified by the numbers who follow without question.
— 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
Who shall guard the guardians? Who shall see that the guardians commit no offenses?
— Frank Herbert
The three legs of the agreement-tripod are desire, data and doubt. Accuracy and honesty have little to do with it.
— 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
She said: "My Uncle Malky used to say that love was a bad bargain because you get no guarantees.
— Frank Herbert
Command must always look confident, he thought. All that faith riding on your shoulders while you sit in the critical seat and never show it.
— Frank Herbert
Love, that is what you understand, she said. Love. And that is all of it. [...] You have faith in life, Hwi said. I know that the courage of love can reside only in this faith.
— 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
What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child." He spoke mechanically: "If only adults could relax like that.
— Frank Herbert