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Quotes about Wisdom

At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.
— Frank Herbert
A world is supported by four things... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.
— Frank Herbert
Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.
— Frank Herbert
You don't see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.
— 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
He mastered the inner world while holding the outer in contempt, and this led to catastrophe.
— 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
They'll call me Muad'Dib, 'The One Who Points the Way'.
— Frank Herbert
attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
— Frank Herbert
You took the universe as you found it and applied your principles where you could.
— Frank Herbert
She said the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
— Frank Herbert
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
— Frank Herbert