Top 332 Quotes & Sayings by L. Ron Hubbard - Page 4

There is no national problem in the world today which cannot be resolved by reason alone.

Boldness in itself is genius.

Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication.

China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation.

Your Integrity is more important than your immediate Life.

The way to happiness is a high-speed road to those who know where the edges are.

Now you say you have to absolutely truthful. Sincerity is the main thing, and truthfulness is the main thing and don't lie to anybody ... and you'll get ahead. Brother you sure will. You'll get ahead right on that cycle of action, right toward zero! It's a trap not being able to prevaricate ... This makes life more colorful!

That which one fears becomes one's master.

A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.

All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.

You may have been taught that the mind (the spirit, the brain) is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life.

The purpose of [a lawsuit] is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.

In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others.

The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.

An individual who can freely and with a clear heart do things because they're fun is a very sane person.

Who said the road doesn’t have bumps? It can still be traveled. So people can fall down: it doesn’t mean they can’t get up again and keep going.

Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.

There is no madder nation than Japan. ... And that nation has the highest rate of suicide, has the highest rate of thick-lens glasses and did the most suicidal trick a few years ago. It's the doggonedest country.

The freedom of an individual depends upon that individual's freedom to alter his considerations of space, energy, time and life and his roles in it. If he cannot change his mind about these, he is then fixed and enslaved amidst barriers such as those of the physical universe, and barriers of his own creation. Man thus is seen to be enslaved by barriers of his own creation. He creates these barriers himself, or by agreeing with things which hold these barriers to be actual.

The end and goal of any society as it addresses the problem of education is to raise the ability, the initiative and the cultural level, and with all these the survival level of that society.

Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.

I know no man who has any monopoly upon the wisdom of this universe. It belongs to those who can use it to help themselves and others.

Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts.

For a very great many years, I asked this question: ‘To communicate or not to communicate?’ If one got himself in such thorough trouble by communication, then of course one should stop communicating. But this is not the case. If one gets himself into trouble by communicating, he should further communicate. More communication, not less, is the answer.

It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth.

The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.

In fact, you don’t have a soul, you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body or your mind. You are you.

Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.

We're not playing some minor game in Scientology. It isn't cute or something to do for lack of something better. The whole agonized future of this planet, every Man, Woman and Child on it, and your own destiny for the next endless trillions of years depend on what you do here and now with and in Scientology.

Always maintain good relations with your public.

Theta clearing is about as practical and simple as repairing a shoe lace. It is nothing to do with hypnotism, voodooism, charalatanism, monkeyism or theosophy. Done, the thetan can do anything a stage magician can do in the way of moving objects around. But this isn't attained by holding one's breath or thinking right thoughts or voting Republican or any other superstitous or mystic practice. So for the reason I brought up, rule out, auditor, any mumbo jumbo or mysticism, spiritualism, or religion.

A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists.

The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help.

Certainty, not data, is knowledge.

People have value and are important. Big or small they are important.

Adventure, I well know, is in the heart, not in the view.

I set out to try to help my fellow man and to do what little I could to make the world a better place.

Now, there is something else interesting here, is this thing called self-determinism and pan-determinism. We have found that there is something stands as a barrier between the ability of a person to be self-determined and the condition he is in, and that is willingness to be controlled. As long as a person will resist control, then everything that comes along which threatens to control him can do so; and thus you have aberration. And until he has a total tolerance of control, he cannot be self-determined or pan-determined.

Advanced Courses [in Scientology] are the most valuable service on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks, bonds, college savings, all are transitory and impermanent... There is nothing to compare with Advanced Courses. They are infinitely valuable and transcend time itself.

The handling of a problem seems to be simply the increase of ability to confront the problem and when the problem can be totally confronted it no longer exists.

Getting married is an adventure. Because when you're getting married, you're doing something you don't know anything about. Did you ever think of that?

There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the Tone Scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow.

This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought.

Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our tasks. But none of us - and still stay alive and sane - could do without something to do.

Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.

Self-confidence is nothing more than belief in one’s ability to decide and in one’s decisions.

There are vistas never dreamed of, there are joys never even known, there are glories no past glory ever surpassed. These wait for you but only if you accept my legacy and help bring these things about.

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

Men who know are secure. Men who don't know believe in luck.

The cold, basic truth is that you are a vital and necessary part of this world

Well, I don't know that I'm OK any more than anybody else is OK but I've led at least a happy life and a very full one.

Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.

If you really want to make a lot of money, start your own religion.

It is a remarkable fact, a scientific fact, that the healthiest children come from the happiest mothers.

In all the broad Universe there is no other hope for Man than ourselves.

The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

Living is having and following a purpose. That's all.