Frank Herbert Quotes

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.

We want to watch what he does, not listen to what he says.

People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they are different.

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

Words that do not match deeds are not important.

What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.

...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

My dad told me something long before I was in politics, and when your dad gives you advice every single day, eventually one or two of the things stick in your mind. And he said, don't believe what people say, believe what they do.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

They say, and do not.

People can smell when things aren't genuine.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do. I used to say that I believed it was important to tell people about Jesus, but I never did. A friend kindly explained that if I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say. We live for what we believe.

The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.

A new study found that most people can't go 10 minutes without lying. But since the study took 20 minutes nobody knows what to believe.