Dune

"Know thyself—the most difficult of all tasks."

"The absence of a thing can be as deadly as the thing itself."

"Training minds the way they should go is far more valuable than immense treasure."

"No one can see the truth with eyes closed."

"The test of any philosophy is its applicability to human affairs."

"Great events turn on small hinges."

"When you can flatten the fear, you flatten the fear-producer."

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."

"You must learn to see, Paul. Sight is the gift of knowing."

"The future is written by those with the will to shape it."

"Love and loyalty are weapons as dangerous as any blade."

"Empires are built on the backs of the forgotten."

"To understand power, one must first understand oneself."

"Every action creates consequences beyond our knowing."

"Those who lose themselves in pursuit of power lose everything."

"The human mind is capable of both creation and destruction."

"Ambition is a cruel master."

"To rule is to serve those ruled."

"The desert has its own consciousness."

"Authority without wisdom is tyranny."

"Knowledge is power only if you know how to use it."

"When you have seen where power lies and how it corrupts, you cannot look away."

"Paradise on Arrakis requires the death of the old desert."

"The spice extends life."

"He is like a man racing against time."

"Time is a gift."

"The uncontrollable forces of nature are no match for the power of human will."

"My father's own men betrayed him."

"The test of any religion is whether it aspires to explain the universe or merely to control behavior."

"I will learn your ways."