Frank Herbert Quotes

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.

Nothing ever guarantees you anything-that's my rule. My other rule is never believe anything that anyone tells you, and then you'll never be fooled. It's not as cynical as it sounds; it's just that people always say something for a reason-maybe a nice reason, maybe a devious reason-so on that level, you can't take things at face value.

Every tale is not to be believed.

The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.

Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess.

Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth?

I can smell bullshit from a mile away but it's so much harder to detect when it's around you all day.

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.

I don't lie." "You don't lie," I repeated. "That's what I said." "Ever." "Nope." Sure you don't, I thought.

I am very suspicious of people.

There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them

Trust has always been a hard issue in my life, and when I was with the UFC, it was hard for me to trust people because it was like I was seeing lies, up to lies, up to lies.

Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else.

I don't discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust them.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.

Since the Drive-Bys are involved, I'm sorry, folks, I just never, ever do I accept anything, I don't care what. If it's football, if it's the space program, if it's anything, I automatically do not believe it.