L. Ron Hubbard Quotes
-
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.
-
A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.
-
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.
-
Scientology … is not a religion.
-
Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.
-
It is a remarkable fact, a scientific fact, that the healthiest children come from the happiest mothers.
-
When we need somebody haunted we investigate … When we investigate we do so noisily always.
-
If anyone is getting industrious trying to enturbulate [sic] or stop Scientology or its activities, I can make Captain Bligh look like a Sunday-school teacher. There is probably no limit on what I would do to safeguard Man's only road to freedom against persons who ... seek to stop Scientology or hurt Scientologists.
-
The man who has his ideals, no matter how thoroughly he may be persuaded to desert them, survives well only so long as he is true to those ideals.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now…
-
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.
-
Technical Expertise is composed of all the little and large bits of technique known to the skilled painter, musician, actor, any artist. He adds these things together in his basic presentation. He knows what he is doing. And how to do it. And then to his he adds his message.
-
Choice is the keynote of self-determinism. To determine anything, you must have the choice to determine. Choice to determine means that you must have the power of decision. Decision and time have a lot in common. When we have clean, clear decision, we have clean, clear time. And when we have indecision, there is an unclarity about time.
-
If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.
-
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.
-
Two Rules for Happy Living: 1. Be able to experience anything. 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily.
-
Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalog of illnesses goes away and stays away.
-
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.
-
You can put these things into the hands of some Chinese and send him to Hong Kong and we'll have cleared chinks.
-
Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.
-
Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in the textbooks on these subjects. A professional knows the rules of the game as a matter of course so that he can achieve, in the upper strata above that, a high quality of art.