Frank Herbert Quotes

You cannot be known Better than I know you.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.

When you have watched someone long enough, you know what they can do.

[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes.

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

It might be good to open our eyes and see.

If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked at his face. Finally, someone understood.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen.

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

Until you've tasted it [anything], you can't really know it.

In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.

Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

How do you know who I am?' Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is.

But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.

You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.