If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERNever show unfinished work.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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