Top 332 Quotes & Sayings by L. Ron Hubbard

If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.

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.

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.

I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

Oh yes, as a matter of fact it is quite interesting that exercises can be conducted which demonstrate conclusively that there are memories which exist prior to this life.

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

A man is as alive as he can communicate.

The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.

I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

One of the ways you learn about life is to associate with people.

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.

One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time.

The DEFENSE of anything is UNTENABLE. The only way to defend anything is to ATTACK, and if you ever forget that, then you will lose every battle you are ever engaged in, whether it is in terms of personal conversation, public debate, or a court of law. NEVER BE INTERESTED IN CHARGES. DO, yourself, much MORE CHARGING, and you will WIN.

How does life become totally painful By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows. Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are.

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the fodder of a close-knit group of initiates. They are the soul food of all people.

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

The best way to know any future is to cause one.

The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.

Are you making life or is life making you?

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.

Think your own way through things, accept what is true for you, discard the rest.

The test of true competence is the end result.

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.

Who said the road doesn’t have bumps? It can still be traveled.

See what you see, not what someone tells you that you see

To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.

No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.

The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.

One's attitude toward life makes every possible difference in one's living. You know, you don't have to study a thousand ancient books to discover that fact. But sometimes it needs to be pointed out again that life doesn't change so much as you. ... The day when you stop building your own environment, when you stop building your own surroundings, when you stop waving a magic hand and gracing everything around you with magic and beauty, things cease to be magical, things cease to be beautiful. Well, maybe you've just neglected somewhere back in the last few years to wave that magic hand.

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.

If a person thinks he can be happy without making those around him happy, he's crazy.

One cannot be able in life by fearing to live.

A true Educator locates the intelligence and abilities within another, drawing them out for all, even the student, to see. And then steps out of the way, allowing them to develop, create and pursue their talent.

Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.

The Ultimate decision, the fastest decision there is, is ACTION!

True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them.

Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.

To salvage a society, it is necessary to aid, abet, raise and increase that state of mind. If you were to set up a perfect government out here which required the intervention of nobody, you would have destroyed the society. But by raising the individual ability of the persons in the society within the framework that they are able to view, raise their ability within the framework they are able to view, you would have achieved a marked advance for that society.

The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.

Living is having and following a purpose. That's all. That's the formula of life-have and follow a purpose. That's it. If you do it, you're living and if you don't do it, you're not living. And that's all there is to it. I've now given you the basic fundamental of existence and that really is it.

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.

The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.

Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.

You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of.

Dianetics is not in any way covered by legislation anywhere, for no law can prevent one man sitting down and telling another man his troubles, and if anyone wants a monopoly on dianetics, be assured that he wants it for reasons which have to do not with dianetics but with profit.

That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That's one of the fundamentals of this universe. That to which he devotes energy, he finally has.

The last Martian report station on Earth was established in the Pyrenees.

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.

To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is.