The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEREvery time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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