Words matter. These are the best R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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.
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
Don’t fight forces, use them.
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
Man knows so much and does so little.
Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
Love is metaphysical gravity.
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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.
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.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
Tension is the great integrity.
