"A proverb is much matter distilled into few…" — R. Buckminster Fuller
"A proverb is much matter distilled into few words."
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220 Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller has 220 quotes on this site.
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Everyone is born a genius.
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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…
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You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have…
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Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and…
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Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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You can never learn less; you can only learn more.
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What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating…
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then…
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the…
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe…
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We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that…
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The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
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More Distilled Quotes
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Poetry is life distilled.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
— Raymond Chandler
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A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people.…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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The internal processes of muscle growth are seriously complicated, people devote their lives to it, but the external processes that…
— Unknown Author
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.…
— Ovid
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But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the…
— James K. Baxter
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My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as…
— John Cheever
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Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat,…
— Virginia Woolf
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Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.
— L.E. Modesitt Jr.
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Hurray, Hallelujah, and Happy Prostate! Finally, someone has taken the years and done the work, so the rest of us…
— Dirk Benedict
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
— Edward Albee
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If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness,…
— Roland Merullo
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