Quotes By R. Buckminster Fuller

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

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

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

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

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

Man knows so much and does so little.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Tension is the great integrity.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Truth is a tendency.

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

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.