L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

The Jivanmukta ('the living free' or one who knows) alone is able to give real love, real charity, real truth, and it is truth alone that makes us free.

Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.

The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.

Only the educated are free.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

The truth will make you free.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; …

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Every religion or every philosophy is an outcome of the human search for liberation.

Enlightenment is choicelessness. But don't misunderstand me. Before that, you will have to move very cautiously, choosing the right against the wrong, choosing the truer so that you can reach to the ultimate truth.

Tell others about the truth that sets you free.