R.Buckminster Fuller

Quote: 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]

Quote: God is a verb. [R.Buckminster Fuller]

Quote: Integrity is the essence of everything successful. [R.Buckminster Fuller]

Quote: 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]

Quote: We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. [R.Buckminster Fuller]

Quote: Our power is in our ability to decide. [R.Buckminster Fuller]

Quote: Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. [R.Buckminster Fuller]

Quote: Controlled time is our true wealth. [R.Buckminster Fuller]

Quote: 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. [R.Buckminster Fuller]

Quote: Dictators never invent their own opportunities. [R.Buckminster Fuller]

Quote: 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]

Quote: Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking. [R.Buckminster Fuller]

Quote: 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]

Quote: The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. [R.Buckminster Fuller]

Quote: Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead. [R.Buckminster Fuller]

Quote: You can never learn less, you can only learn more. [R.Buckminster Fuller]

Quote: If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. [R.Buckminster Fuller]

Quote: Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices. [R.Buckminster Fuller]

Quote: 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]

Quote: 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]

Quote: The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. [R.Buckminster Fuller]

Quote: People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. [R.Buckminster Fuller]

Quote: Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune. [R.Buckminster Fuller]

Quote: A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. [R.Buckminster Fuller]

Quote: Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. [R.Buckminster Fuller]

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