Frank Herbert Quotes

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

Can you picture my prophecy?

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow: Don't never prophesy — onless ye know.

I do believe in prophecy.

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

Marethyu stretched out his right hand and Aten took it in his. "Let me tell you this," the hook-handed man said. "We will meet again,you and I,in a different place and a different time." "You know this to be true?" "I do." "Because you have seen the future?" "Because I have been there.

PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.

I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

Prophecy - To observe that which has passed, and guess it will happen again.

The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

You'll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.

I have seen the future! Go back!