J. G. Hubbard Quotes

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

Nothing dispels enthusiasm like a small admission fee.

Mother Earth is giving birth to a co-creative humanity. There's not a majority anywhere, but it's cropping up everywhere, because old leadership does not have the authority to guide us.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

Conformists die, but heretics live forever.

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

The best way to know any future is to cause one.

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty, while bein' above suspicion is about th' only compensation fer bein' homely.

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

Catastrophe and creation are twins.

All people are born creative. And there's nobody who's helpless, nobody.

Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown.

Crisis precedes transformation.

Dianetics is an adventure. It is an exploration into Terra Incognita, the human mind, that vast and hitherto unknown realm half an inch back of our foreheads.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

All the world loves a good loser.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

Library: A place where the dead lie.

Many a family tree needs trimming

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others.

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.

The worst waste of breath, next to playing a saxophone, is advising a son

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, an' it keeps on laughin'.

About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.

If a person thinks he can be happy without making those around him happy, he's crazy.

The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.