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 FULLERIf you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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