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 FULLERGold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Truth is a tendency.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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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.
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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.
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