R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes about Giving

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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.

You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Change, Thinking, Giving

Everyone has the perfect gift to give the world-and if each of us is freed up to give our unique gift, the world will be in total harmony.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Unique, Giving, Perfect

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Thinking, People, Giving

... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Men, Giving, Reform

You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Thinking, People, Giving

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought was true was not true. By the elimination of a false premise, his basic capital wealth which in his given lifetime is disembarrassed of further preoccupation with considerations of how to employ a worthless time-consuming hypothesis. Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Men, Giving, May

"Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1963.

Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Giving, Mind, Special

R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.67, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller