People Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

16 People quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

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R. Buckminster Fuller distills his visionary outlook into concise thoughts on humanity. With sixteen entries, the page captures his knack for linking individual behavior to larger systems, giving you a compact source of his broader perspective.

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If you change the environment, you change the people.

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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.

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You never change people by fighting their existing reality.

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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time…

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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all…

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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last…

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You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change…

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

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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about…

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History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass,…

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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people…

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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars' worth of…

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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs…

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Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and…

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Children will draw pictures with everything in them...houses and trees and people and animals...and the sun AND the moon. Grown-up says, "That's…

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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems.…

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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

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

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There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.

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The opposite of nature is impossible.

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You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his…

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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.

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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible…

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

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We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading…

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