R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes - Page 3

Don't fight forces, use them.

Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.

You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.

I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.

You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

Sharing is having more.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.

Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.

As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.

We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars' worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs. It doesn't take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.

The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.

Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work.

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.