L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.

Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.

The greatest part cannot know, and therefore they must believe.

Belief is in ignorance. If you know, you know. And it is good that if you don’t know, know that you don’t know — the belief can deceive you. The belief can create an atmosphere in your mind, where, without knowing, you start thinking that you know. Belief is not trust, and the more strongly you say that you believe totally, the more you are afraid of the doubt within you.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.

One shouldn't know the future.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

Nobody gets any guarantees.

He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

He doubts nothing who knows nothing.

Uncertainty means that we do not have a complete description of the world which we fully believe to be true.

'Belief' means something that you do not know. You want to assume and bring a certainty to something that you do not know. That means you are concretising your ignorance. There is no need to believe anything.

Knowing and assuming are two different things.

I don't believe. I know.