Frank Herbert Quotes

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

Don't let your heart get big because of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the scholar.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.

Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.

When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.