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When you think you know something, that might be the most perfect barrier against learning.

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Page 225/416

Author:

Frank Herbert

Book:

God Emperor of Dune

The machine cannot anticipate every problem of importance to humans. It is the difference between serial bits and an unbroken continuum.

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Page 181/416

Author:

Frank Herbert

Book:

God Emperor of Dune

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we don't understand.

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Page 171/416

Author:

Frank Herbert

Book:

God Emperor of Dune

My peace is actually enforced tranquility. Humans have a long history of reacting against tranquility

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Page 103/416

Author:

Frank Herbert

Book:

God Emperor of Dune

Short-term decisions tend to fail in the long-term

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Page 79/416

Author:

Frank Herbert

Book:

God Emperor of Dune

Understanding requires words. Some things cannot be reduced to words. There are things that can only be experienced wordlessly.

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Author:

Frank Herbert

Book:

Heretics of Dune

It's unsettling to dream anther's dream.

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Page 467/476

Author:

Frank Herbert

Book:

Heretics of Dune

Philosophy is always dangerous because it promotes the creation of new ideas.

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Page 443/476

Author:

Frank Herbert

Book:

Heretics of Dune

Historians don’t write history, they interpret it to fit it in their way, thus they change the future as well with that.

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Page 375/476

Author:

Frank Herbert

Book:

Heretics of Dune

Act stupid long enough and you become stupid.

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Page 374/476

Author:

Frank Herbert

Book:

Heretics of Dune

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

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Page 345/476

Author:

Frank Herbert

Book:

Heretics of Dune

Never underestimate the power of doubts.

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Page 158/476

Author:

Frank Herbert

Book:

Heretics of Dune