One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. ...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Eac...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we&#...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Tension is the great integrity.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one wi...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Truth is a tendency.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new mode...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give ...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. Bu...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless w...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffe...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a h...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art o...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Either war is obsolete or men are.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER I think I am a verb.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruc...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggerin...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER God is a verb.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Dare to be naive.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience aga...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a ...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Dare to be naïve.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we'v...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolution...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER The minute you choose to do what you really want to do,
it's a different kind of life.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model....
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a f...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative ...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all ...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not ...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Either war is obsolete, or men are.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER God is a verb, not a noun.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and des...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is s...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless w...
BUCKMINSTER FULLER We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as...
BUCKMINSTER FULLER Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER God is a verb.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .
BUCKMINSTER FULLER We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless w...
BUCKMINSTER FULLER Controlled time is our true wealth.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER Our power is in our ability to decide.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER Everyone is born a genius.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER You can't learn less.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Eac...
BUCKMINSTER FULLER I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a livin...
BUCKMINSTER FULLER God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. ...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Our power is in our ability to decide.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art o...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all ...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Man is a self-balancing, 28-jointed adapter-base biped, and electro-chemical reduction plant, integr...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER You can't learn less.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience aga...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffe...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going ...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless w...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much ov...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER God is a verb.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we'v...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study t...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instructi...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Eac...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one wi...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Don't fight forces, use them.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly se...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Controlled time is our true wealth.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a h...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Everyone is born a genius.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Either war is obsolete or men are.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER If the success or failure of this Planet, and of Human Beings, depended on how I am and what I do; H...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclus...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Man knows so much and does so little.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Truth is a tendency.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER To expose a 4.2 trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 larges...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldn't have done anywher...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Love is metaphysical gravity.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model tha...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or th...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER War is obsolete
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER One outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book cam...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Tension is the great integrity.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. Bu...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model tha...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER 'BUCKY' FULLER The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.
J. S. BUCKMINSTER The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.
J. S. BUCKMINSTER If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
MARGARET FULLER Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where yo...
SAMUEL FULLER You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. Th...
SAMUEL FULLER Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what y...
SAMUEL FULLER When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of th...
SAMUEL FULLER We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
SAMUEL FULLER Surviving is the only glory in war.
SAMUEL FULLER I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the...
MELVILLE FULLER The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
THOMAS FULLER One of the outstanding sources of resistance to imperial power in the Muslim world came from Sufi gr...
GRAHAM FULLER When someone asks if you want to play Brittany Murphy, who you idolized as a child and grew up lovin...
AMANDA FULLER Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
MARGARET FULLER Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high.
THOMAS FULLER In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.
ALEXANDRA FULLER He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
THOMAS FULLER Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
FULLER THOMAS God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.
THOMAS FULLER Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
THOMAS FULLER Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales whi...
THOMAS FULLER Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
MARGARET FULLER Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.
THOMAS FULLER Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
MARGARET FULLER In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly,...
ALEXANDRA FULLER If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has...
THOMAS FULLER It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals t...
THOMAS FULLER There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in t...
THOMAS FULLER Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.
THOMAS FULLER Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
THOMAS FULLER Today is yesterday's pupil.
THOMAS FULLER Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
THOMAS FULLER He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
THOMAS FULLER Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
THOMAS FULLER Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetual...
MARGARET FULLER Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of...
THOMAS FULLER Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed o...
THOMAS FULLER We have all forgot more than we remember.
THOMAS FULLER A good garden may have some weeds.
THOMAS FULLER