The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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