Frank Herbert

"Education is no substitute for intelligence."

"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."

"Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous."

"To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures."

"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."

"Guilt starts as a feeling of failure."

"Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous."

"To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures."

"There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story."

"Education is no substitute for intelligence."

"Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe."