A List of Famous Buckminster Fuller Quotes By Reference

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Buckminster Fuller
2

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Buckminster Fuller

Wealth
3

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Buckminster Fuller

Dictators and Dictatorship
4

Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?

Buckminster Fuller
5

Don't fight forces, use them.

Buckminster Fuller

Architecture
6

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

Buckminster Fuller

Faith
7

God is a verb.

Buckminster Fuller

God
8

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Buckminster Fuller

Gold
9

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

Buckminster Fuller

God
10

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

Buckminster Fuller
11

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Buckminster Fuller

Genius
12

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.

Buckminster Fuller

Integrity
13

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Buckminster Fuller

Management
14

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

Buckminster Fuller

Integrity
15

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

Buckminster Fuller

Mistakes
16

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Buckminster Fuller

Human nature
17

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

Buckminster Fuller

Mind
18

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

Buckminster Fuller

World
19

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Buckminster Fuller

Power
20

Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.

Buckminster Fuller

Education
21

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.

Buckminster Fuller

Manners
22

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

Buckminster Fuller

Tradition
23

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

Buckminster Fuller

Pollution
24

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Buckminster Fuller

Misfortunes
25

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

Buckminster Fuller

Leaders and Leadership
26

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

Buckminster Fuller
27

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

Buckminster Fuller

Earth
28

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

Buckminster Fuller

Politicians and Politics
29

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

Buckminster Fuller

History and Historians
30

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

Buckminster Fuller

Beauty
31

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

Buckminster Fuller

Devil
32

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

Buckminster Fuller

Growth
33

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

Buckminster Fuller

Grave
34

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

Buckminster Fuller

Humankind
35

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.

Buckminster Fuller

Cooperation
36

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.

Buckminster Fuller

Education
37

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

Buckminster Fuller

Problem
38

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

Buckminster Fuller

Learning
39

You can't learn less.

Buckminster Fuller

Learning

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A List of Famous Buckminster Fuller Quotes you can use this list to help make your own ranked list about this topic

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?

Don't fight forces, use them.

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

God is a verb.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

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

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

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

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.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

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

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

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

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

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.

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.

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

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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

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

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

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

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

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

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

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

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

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.

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

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

You can't learn less.