Quotes about Perception
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
— Frank Herbert
What the eyes had seen could not be erased.
— Frank Herbert
He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.
— Frank Herbert
Life produces a different taste each time you take it.
— Frank Herbert
His thoughts were too vague to be described, but they comprehended mysterious elements.
— Frank Herbert
Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see. The nostrils see.
— Frank Herbert
The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him.
— Frank Herbert
There is the difference between us," he said. "You are God embodied. You walk around within the greatest miracle of this universe, yet you refuse to touch or see or feel or believe in it.
— Frank Herbert
Isn't it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?" Jessica
— Frank Herbert
One doesn't need telepathy to read your intentions.
— 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
attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
— Frank Herbert