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R. Buckminster Fuller
American
Inventor
About the author
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Thought
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Virtue
#Vices
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Misfortune
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Nothing
#Value
#Pollution
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#People
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Ideas
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
Tension is the great integrity.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Integrity
#Tension
Truth is a tendency.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Truth
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Art
#Children
#Virtue
#Knowledge
#Parents
#Manners
#Concern
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Earth
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#End
#Politics
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Earth
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Nothing
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Mistake
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Clothes
#Grave
#Monument
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Needs
#Universe
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#War
#Politics
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Future
#Victims
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Earth
#Fate
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Time
#People
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Solution
#Wrong
#Beauty
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Will
#Play
#Devil
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Gold
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Now
#Earth
#Fact
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Artist
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Words
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Will
#Politics
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Dictators
Don't fight forces, use them.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Fight
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#War
#Men
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Living
#Genius
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Thinking
#Belief
#Faith
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Difference
#Humanity
#Integrity
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#God
Man knows so much and does so little.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Man
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Ability
#Nations
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#God
#Purpose
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Right
#Technology
#Wrong
#Humanity
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Man
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Experience
#Genius
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Blind
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Successful
#Integrity
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Home
#Clients
#Aesthetics
Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Love
#Gravity
God is a verb, not a noun.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#God
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster Fuller,
American
Inventor
#Trying
#Succeed
#Nature