R. Buckminster Fuller's Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Don't fight forces, use them.

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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

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

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.

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

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

Love is metaphysical gravity.

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

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

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.

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.

God is a verb, not a noun.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.