R. Buckminster Fuller

(524 votes)   There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

R. Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher

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(340 votes)   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
1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher

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(323 votes)   Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

R. Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher

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(298 votes)   Don't fight forces, use them.

R. Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher

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(267 votes)   Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

R. Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher

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(240 votes)   You can't learn less.

Buckminster Fuller
American Engineer, Inventor, Designer, Architect ''Geodesic Dome''

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(236 votes)   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
1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher

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(226 votes)   Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Buckminster Fuller
American Engineer, Inventor, Designer, Architect ''Geodesic Dome''

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(215 votes)   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.

Buckminster Fuller
American Engineer, Inventor, Designer, Architect ''Geodesic Dome''

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(212 votes)   Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

R. Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher

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(205 votes)   Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

R. Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher

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(188 votes)   God is a verb.

Buckminster Fuller
American Engineer, Inventor, Designer, Architect ''Geodesic Dome''

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(176 votes)   The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

Buckminster Fuller
American Engineer, Inventor, Designer, Architect ''Geodesic Dome''

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

R. Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher

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(173 votes)   God is a verb, not a noun proper or improper.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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