He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIn the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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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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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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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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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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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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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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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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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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