L. Ron Hubbard famous quotes

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

#Honesty #Men #People

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Letting Go #Heartbroken #Regret

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

#Lost

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

#Writing #Religion #Atheism

Are you making life or is life making you?
-- L. Ron Hubbard

The test of true competence is the end result.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Tests #Ends #Results

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Helping Others #Shadow #Pleasure

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

#Love #Greatness #Secret

Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it. In other words, any information is valuable to the degree that you can make it yours. Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place. It is not only the science of life, but it is an account of what you were doing before you forgot what you were doing.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Degrees #Doe #Use

Artistry is to a large degree simplicity.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Simplicity #Degrees #Artistry

One cannot be able in life by fearing to live.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Able

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.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Looks #Down And #Way

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

#Be Kind #Assets #Ability

The Ultimate decision, the fastest decision there is, is ACTION!
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Decision #Action #Ultimate

True greatness depends on total wisdom. The real lesson is to learn to love.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Real #Greatness #Lessons

Today's children will become tomorrow's civilization.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Children #Civilization #Today

For nearly a quarter of a century, I have been engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material universe and human behavior. Such an adventure leads one down many highways, through many byroads, into many back alleys of uncertainty, through many strata of life…
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Adventure #Fundamentals #Behavior

A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Philosophy #Throat #Scientology

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.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Greatness #Faces #Action

The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help. And when you can improve that ability all the way up along the line, you've improved about all there is to improve about a person.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Race #Lines #Way

The ultimate freedom depends on knowing the ultimate Truth. Truth is not what people say it is, it is what it is. And Truth, quite remarkably, sets one free, just like philosophers have said down the ages.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Knowing #People #Age

As long as life has the level of being a game, you can play it.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Games #Play #Long

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

#Rights #Deny #Critical

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.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Simple #Men #Study

Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Art #Communication #Quality

Scientology is the science of knowing how to know answers. It is a wisdom in the tradition of ten thousand years of search in Asia and Western civilization. It is the Science of Human Affairs which treats the livingness and beingness of Man and demonstrates to him a pathway to greater freedom.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Men #Years #Civilization

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.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Art #People #Soul

In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Culture #Ease #Manners

The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Dollars #Way #Million Dollars

Change no man’s religion, change no man’s politics, interrupt the sovereignty of no nation. Instead, teach Man to use what he has and what he knows to the factual creation, within any political reference, of a civilization on Earth for the first time.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Men #Civilization #Political

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

#Race #Helping #Ability

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Given #Circumstances #Situation

One of the great truths of Scientology is that increased awareness is the only factor which offers any road out. That is an awfully simple truth, but you'll find out that people don't know that. They think that less awareness is the road out - and that is the road down into the basement.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Simple #Thinking #People

The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Kings #Philosophy #Wish

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

#Book #Writing #Want

A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic level, workable government, land and natural resources, in about that order of importance.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Artist #Men #Order

On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Earth #Peace On Earth

The second that you make a man truly free, he becomes truly good. And it is only that individual who has lost his belief in himself and his own pride of goodness and his own pride of being and his own honor who is dangerous.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Pride #Men #Honor

Dianetics is an adventure. It is an exploration into Terra Incognita, the human mind, that vast and hitherto unknown realm half an inch back of our foreheads.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Adventure #Mind #Half

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Work #Serious #Trouble

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

#Men #Goal #Ability

A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Long #Able #Feels

The goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing of a better game.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Games #Goal #Individual

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days. These shadows look so thick to him and weigh him down so that when he finds they are shadows and that he can see through them, walk through them and be again in the sun, he is enormously delighted. And I am afraid I am just as delighted as he is.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Helping Others #Shadow #Looks

So one predicts the future as much as one is cause. The future isn't a pattern laid out to abuse and bully you. The future is a beautiful playground that nobody happens to be combining. You talk about virgin territory - the most virgin territory there is, is the future. You can do anything you want with it. Nobody is doing anything with it.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Beautiful #Bully #Abuse

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

#Principles #Valuable #Philosophic

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

#Crazy #Thinking #Persons

See what you see, not what someone tells you that you see
-- L. Ron Hubbard

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Insecurity #Absence #Security

Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Tolerance #Humans #Human Relations

It is in your power to point the way to a less dangerous and happier life.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Way #Dangerous #Happier Life

Living is having and following a purpose. That's all.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Purpose #Following

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

#Bumps #Said #Stills

Self-confidenc e alone is security. Your ability is your security. There is no security but you.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Self #Ability #Security

The way to happiness requires that one set a good example for others.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Example #Way

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

#Way #Speed

The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#People #Clue

What is important is how much service you can give the world and how much you can get done and how much better you can make things.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Giving #Important #Done

What is important is how much service you can give to the world and how much better you can make things. These are important things. These are all that are important. A bank account never measured the worth of a man. His ability to help measured his worth and that's all. A bank account can assist one to help but where it ceases to do that it becomes useless.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Men #Giving #Important

Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Men #Challenges #Enough

The best way to know any future is to cause one.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Way #Causes

If at this moment you simply made up your minds that you were handsome, beautiful, strong, dangerous, powerful, that you knew everything there was to know, you were totally capable in any job that you undertook or any sport you undertook-if you really believed that, and you can believe it, some of your faces would change physically before my eyes.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Beautiful #Sports #Strong

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

#Photography #Writing #Mean

Learn to write when you would rather sleep. Learn to exercise this gift of language when no conscious portion of your wits can vibrate anything but worry. Learn to write so, my son, and you can call yourself a writer.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Writing #Sleep #Son

You want to raise your child in such a way that you don't have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Children #Want #Way

You may have noticed that society is rapidly going downhill. Inflation, lack of fuel and even war cast deep shadows over the world. And the most serious part of this is that drugs, both medical and street drugs, have disabled a majority of those who could have handled it, including the political leaders, and have even paralyzed the coming generations.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#War #Leader #Political

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.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Government #Views #Perfect

It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Real #Men #Reason

Let the child see Mama and Daddy both at least once a day. Never quarrel or argue in front of a baby or a child-it destroys security.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Baby #Children #Daddy

I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Religion

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.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Past #Treated

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

#Able #Environment #Persons

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.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Men #Levels #Sanity

The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Curves #Imagination #Sanity

The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Simplicity #Evolution #Complexity

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.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Lying #Book #Writing

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Ideas #Progress #Battle

I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Drinking #Rum

When we need somebody haunted we investigate ... When we investigate we do so noisily always.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Needs

A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on the way out.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Men #Generations #Care

The cold, basic truth is that you are a vital and necessary part of this world
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#World #Cold #Truth Is

I believe that to command is to serve and only gives one the right to serve.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Believe #Giving #I Believe

Certainty, not data, is knowledge.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Data #Certainty

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

#Men #Trying #World

There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

You can get a much better fee - I tell you as auditors quite frankly - it's much easier to get a great deal of money out of somebody who's on a down spiral into becoming MEST than it is to get money out of somebody who is going on an up spiral toward becoming theta.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Auditors #Becoming #Get Money

Here on Earth there was undoubtedly a Christ. One of the reasons he swept in so suddenly and he would go forward so hard is, he had a good assist in back of him in terms of an implant.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Earth #Christ #Reason

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

#Self Confidence #Decision #Belief

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

#Want

Before the Beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was the creation of effect,
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Purpose #Causes #Creation

It was my responsibility that this world got itself an atom bomb, because there were only a handful of nuclear physicists in the thirties - only a handful. And we were all beating the desk and saying "How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Responsibility #Atoms #Nuclear

God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Laughter #Men #Feelings

To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the knowledge I have developed there must lie the answers to that riddle, to that enigma, to that problem - the human soul - for under my hands and others, was seen the best in man rehabilitated. I discovered that a human being is not his body and demonstrated that through Scientology an individual can attain certainty of his identity apart from that of the body. We cannot deal in the realm of the human soul and ignore the fact.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Lying #Men #Hands

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.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Happy Life #Reflection #Wells

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

#Believe #Men #Mad

If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Dream #Men #Goal

Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Communication #Reality #Understanding

Always maintain good relations with your public.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Relation

People have value and are important. Big or small they are important.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#People #Important #Bigs

There are no conflicts which cannot be resolved unless the true promoters of them remain hidden.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Conflict