Frank Herbert Quotes

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

'Push back' is the word; that's what we gotta do against ignorance. I see so much of it, and it's dangerous.

Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.

Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.

If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

Do you really know what's going on And if you don't... find out

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to reestablish.

I don't know anything and neither do you.

We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.

Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

Once you realize something, then you can't pretend you don't know it any more.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.

Be straight with yourself just to maybe save a few more people from being stupid and being ignorant.

It's dangerous to be people-blind.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.