R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

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• Everyone is born a genius.
• There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.
• You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.
• Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not…
• Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
• You can never learn less; you can only learn more.
• What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that…
• Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again…
• Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe…
• You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and…
• We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things…
• The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
• Man knows so much and does so little.
• Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question…
• You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume…
• There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.
• Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
• Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
• Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
• You can make money or you can make sense. The two are mutually exclusive.

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