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Thinking Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller
- 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.
- 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…
- We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
- Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total…
- My biggest hope that we're going to make it here is that this thinking is being manifested & really employed by the young world. Will…
- . . . So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me - each one…
- You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.
- Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the…
- The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came…
- Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love - I don't think there's any influence on my…
- We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get…
- Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.
- When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
- Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't know it.
- Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule...
- When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know…
- Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
- I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth.…
- I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano…
- If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of…
More Thinking Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I don't think I have a signature. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
- I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I… — J. J. Abrams
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams