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 FULLERPeople should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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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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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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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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God is a verb, not a noun.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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