You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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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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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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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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