R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Beauty, Beautiful, Working

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Integrity, Humanity, Through

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Nature, Nothing, Butterfly

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Experience, Genius, Tremendous

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.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Whole, Able, Earth

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Living, Everyone, Genius

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

Politics, Nothing, Value

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

Faith, Someone, Thinking

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

Artist, Objective, Mechanic

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

Nature, Hard, Trying

Don't fight forces, use them.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Either war is obsolete, or men are.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Men, War, Either

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

Invisible, Percent

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.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Art, Knowledge, Greatest

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.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Great, Powerful, Become

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Politics, Political, Away

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Accept, Fresh, Terms

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.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Time, Lost, Happens

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Else, Often, Found

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

Politics, End, Gun

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

God, Seems, Proper

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Yourself, Others, Virtue

Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Successful, Integrity, Everything

God is a verb, not a noun.
R. Buckminster Fuller

God, Verb, Noun

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: July 12, 1895

Died: July 1, 1983

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