R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

You can never learn less, you can only learn more... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Tension is the great integrity... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Truth is a tendency... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well.. view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit.. view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

War is the ultimate tool of politics... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

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... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

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... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

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... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Dictators never invent their own opportunities... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Don't fight forces, use them... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Either war is obsolete, or men are... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

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... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Man knows so much and does so little... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

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... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented... view

By: R. Buckminster Fuller