Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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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.
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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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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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