Top 250 L. Ron Hubbard Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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?”

— L. Ron Hubbard

52. “Two Rules for Happy Living: 1. Be able to experience anything. 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

53. “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

54. “The way to happiness is much, much easier to travel with people one can trust.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

55. “True greatness depends on total wisdom. The real lesson is to learn to love.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

56. “The only aberration is denial of self.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

57. “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.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

58. “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

59. “Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he’s mad is the madman.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

60. “Save the child and you save the nation.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

62. “Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

63. “Certainty, not data, is knowledge.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

64. “All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

66. “My own philosophy is that one should share what wisdom he has, one should help others to help themselves and one should keep going despite heavy weather, for there is always a calm ahead.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

68. “If things were a little better known and understood, we would all lead happier lives.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

70. “Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

71. “Your Integrity is more important than your immediate Life.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

72. “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

73. “The Ultimate decision, the fastest decision there is, is ACTION!”

— L. Ron Hubbard

74. “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

75. “Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

76. “Music is indeed the Universal Language.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

77. “Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

78. “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.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

79. “You can blame your whole confusion on the fact that you bought illusion.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

80. “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.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

81. “A suppressing person isn’t critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

82. “Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

83. “Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

84. “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

85. “There is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

86. “If you can achieve action, you will achieve happiness.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

87. “True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

88. “See what you see, not what someone tells you that you see.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

89. “People who tell you that control is bad are trying to tell you that automobile accidents and industrial accidents are good.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

90. “The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

91. “Always maintain good relations with your public.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

92. “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.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

93. “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.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

95. “Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it’s radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes. And what it does is start to run out the radiation dosage, don’t you see.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

96. “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.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

98. “It is not man’s dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

100. “A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.”

— L. Ron Hubbard