L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.

I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

Hope may give a man strength, but not sense.

The future is unknowable, but the past may give us hope.

With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview.

As you grow older, you start looking at the bigger picture. You don't look at only yourself.

Deeper things, heavier things happen to you as you get older and makes you more open.

The more life you live, the more you are able to understand the experiences of other people. It's one of the few benefits of getting older.

He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.