Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERI just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
More 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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Each one of us could make the difference.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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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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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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