L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?

Some things that are true are not very useful.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Truth is what works.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

True information does good.

A belief is not true because it is useful.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth. A man would perish of hunger and thirst, if he refused to eat or drink, till he had obtained positive proof that food and drink would be good for him. But in philosophic reflection this is not so. On the contrary, we must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.

It is not difficult to know a thing; what is difficult is to know how to use what you know

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

What is fruitful alone is true.

Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

There have been a number of philosophers who have reveled in the dismantling of truth. I think they did so with good ethical motives, and for good philosophical reasons. I can see the sense in what they were talking about; the idea that truth is often claimed by elites in order to further certain agendas. They crowd-out alternative perspectives - particularly those of the powerless. But the undermining of truth contributed - in the weird, indirect way that philosophy contributes to the culture - to a rejection of the idea of truth as having any kind of proper meaning at all.

All truth is profound.

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

The gift of truth excels all other gifts.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.

All wisdom ends in paradox.

Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.