Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
BUCKMINSTER FULLEREveryone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Tension is the great integrity.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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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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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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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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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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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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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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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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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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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