The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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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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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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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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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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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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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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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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