A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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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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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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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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