Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

Brian Herbert
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  1. Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it. - Alan Moore

  2. Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. - Will Durant

  3. I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better... - Henry Rollins

  4. How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other... - Ernest Hemingway

  5. I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think - Socrates

More Quotes By Brian Herbert
  1. Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.

  2. The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what they think it is.

  3. Discovery is dangerous .. . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.

  4. We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. A strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including our gods.

  5. If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.

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