Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERNinety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Truth is a tendency.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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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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