How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else. BUCKMINSTER FULLER ElseFoundGoOftenOnlySettingShouldSomewhere
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. BUCKMINSTER FULLER BlindDeafMasterServantSometimes
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword. BUCKMINSTER FULLER BroughtDegreeDeviPlaySwordToyWield
Integrity is the essence of everything successful. BUCKMINSTER FULLER EssenceEverythingIntegritySuccesful
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. BUCKMINSTER FULLER ButterflyCaterpillarGoNothingTell
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value. BUCKMINSTER FULLER AllowDisperseHarvestIgnorantNothingPlooitionResourceThemValue
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t. BUCKMINSTER FULLER AdvanceMistMistakeRidUncoverWhen
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. BUCKMINSTER FULLER ClothDeathEmbroideryExpensiveGraveLainMonumentSuitTomb
Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering. BUCKMINSTER FULLER AloneCaseSometimesThink
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. BUCKMINSTER FULLER NineNinetyPercentUntouchableYou
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. BUCKMINSTER FULLER DependExperimentHardMakeNatureNotSuccessTryUponVery
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. BUCKMINSTER FULLER BeautifulBeautyFinishKnowProblemSolutionThinkWorkWrong
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. BUCKMINSTER FULLER CapabilityDullEducationFacultyHappenInnateLostMatureOverloadParalyzedPeopleProcesStuffedTimeUsually
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking. BUCKMINSTER FULLER BetterBriefElseFaithMuchSomeoneThink
Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease. BUCKMINSTER FULLER AtCircleDomeEaseGiveGreatHomeJustStrainStress
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. BUCKMINSTER FULLER ArchitectCallFutureVictim
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. BUCKMINSTER FULLER BornDegeniuseEveryoneGeniusLiveProcessThem
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees. BUCKMINSTER FULLER AestheticArchitectBringClientHordesKneeLetRichSing
One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. BUCKMINSTER FULLER AllBreakthroughCanCapableMakeOneRestSupportTechnologyTenThousand
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted. BUCKMINSTER FULLER AcceptBadlyEmergencyEnoughNeddProcessUndergo
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. BUCKMINSTER FULLER BookCameEarthImportantInstructionOutstandingRegard
