I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAll children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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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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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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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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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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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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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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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