Richard Buckminster Fuller Famous Quotes
"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
"God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper."
"You can never learn less, you can only learn more."
"By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions."
Dare to be naive.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."
God is a verb.
"Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines."
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Either war is obsolete or men are.
Richard Buckminster Fuller Quotations
"You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set."
Robert E Lee
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
Norman Cousins
"Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half."
Plato
"If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought."
Dennis Roch
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
Stephen Covey
Garth Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played girl bunny
Wayne s World
"Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow."
Horace
A good book has no ending.
R D Cumming
"Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world."
Macneile Dixon