Frank Herbert Quotes

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

I know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know! By that I mean there are three reasons why individuals and businesses fail: 1. Arrogance 2. Arrogance 3. Arrogance.

When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.

When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds - and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own.

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

There is, however, no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

He that is always right is usually wrong.

They are most deceived that trusteth most in themselves.

Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools

DuPont had the idea there was nobody in the universe who could tell them anything.

Beware of being blinded by your own success.