How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERHumanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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.
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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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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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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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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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Truth is a tendency.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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