Inspirational Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

The opposite of nature is impossible.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Television is the third parent.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Real wealth is ideas plus energy.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Controlled time is our true wealth.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Man is designed to be a comprehensivist .

— R. Buckminster Fuller

You either make sense or you make money.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Life is the spirit incarnate in time.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Everyone is born a genius.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Some of us are just less damaged than others.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

You can make money or you can make sense. The two are mutually exclusive.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The further art advances the closer it approaches science, the further science advances the closer it approaches art.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

You can't learn less.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Our power is in our ability to decide.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .

— R. Buckminster Fuller

A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?

— R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

If you change the environment, you change the people.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through…

— R. Buckminster Fuller